Ebionites(4 syl.). A religious sect of the first and second centuries, who maintained that Jesus Christ was merely an inspired messenger, the greatest of all prophets, but yet a man and a man only, without any existence before His birth in Bethlehem. (See above.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Ebionites from Fact Monster:
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