Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—E

Erastians

The followers of Thomas Lieber, Latinised into Erastus, a German “heretic” of the sixteenth century. (1524-1583.)

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