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HERMIANI

Volume 10 · 49 words · 1823 Edition

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

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.