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INCORRUPTIBLES

Volume 11 · 70 words · 1810 Edition

INCORRUPTIBLES, the name of a sect which sprang out of the Eutychians.—Their distinguishing tenet was, that the body of Jesus Christ was incorruptible; by which they meant, that after and from the time wherein he was formed in the womb of his holy mother, he was not susceptible of any change or alteration; not even of any natural and innocent passions, as of hunger, thirst, &c., so that he ate