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Encyclopedia Britannica



NAZARENES (Nag'copaiot)

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 319 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NAN-NEW
NAZARENES (Nag'copaiot) , an obscure Jewish-Christian sect, existing at the time of Epiphanius (fl. A.D. 370) in Coele-Syria, Decapolis (Pella) and Basanitis (Cocabe). According to that authority (Panarion, xxix. 7) they dated their
settlement
  in Fella from the time of the flight of the Jewish Christians from Jerusalem, immediately before the siege in A.D. 7o; he characterizes them as neither more nor less than
Jews
  pure and simple, but adds that they recognized the new
covenant
  as well as the old, and believed in the resurrection, and in the one God and His Son Jesus Christ. He cannot say whether their christological views were identical with those of Cerinthus and his school, or whether they differed at all from his own. But Jerome (Ep. 79, to
Augustine
 ) says that they believed in Christ. the Son of God, born of the Virgin Mary, who suffered under Pontius Pilate, and rose again, but adds that, " desiring to be both
Jews
  and Christians, they are neither the one nor the other." They used the Aramaic recension of the Gospel according to
Matthew
 , which they called the Gospel to the Hebrews, but, while adhering as far as possible to the Mosaic
economy
  as regarded
circumcision
 , sabbaths, foods and the like, they did not refuse to recognize the apostolicity of Paul or the rights of
heathen
  Christians (Jer., Comm. in Isa., ix. I). These facts, taken along with the name (cf. Acts xxiv. 5) and geographical position of the sect, lead to the conclusion that the
Nazarenes
  of the 4th century are, in spite of Epiphanius's distinction, to be identified with the Ebionites (q.v.).


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