or LUCANISTS, a religious sect, so called from Lucianus, or Lucanus, a heretic of the second century, being a disciple of Marcion, whose errors he followed, adding some new ones to them. Epiphanius says he abandoned Marcion; teaching that people ought not to marry, for fear of enriching the Creator: and yet other authors mention that he held this error in common with Marcion and other Gnostics. He denied the immortality of the soul; asserting it to be material.

There was another sect of Lucianists, who appeared some time after the Arians. They taught, that the Father had been a father always, and that he had the name even before he begot the Son; as having in him the power or faculty of generation; and in this manner they accounted for the eternity of the Son.

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