Brewer's: Cerinthians

Disciples of Cerinthus, a heresiarch of the first century. They denied the divinity of Christ, but held that a certain virtue descended into Him at baptism, which filled Him with the Holy Ghost.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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