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HERMIANI

Volume 10 · 50 words · 1810 Edition

HERMIANI, or HERMITIANS, a sect of heretics in the second century, thus called from their leader Hermias. They were also denominated Seleucians.

One of their distinguishing tenets was, that God is corporeal. Another, that Jesus Christ did not ascend into heaven with his body, but left it in the sun.