Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—S

Sabellians

A religious sect; so called from Sabellius, a Libyan priest of the third century. They believed in the unity of God, and said that the Trinity merely expressed three relations or states of one and the same God.

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