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NEOPHYTE (Gr. veb4vros , from aios, new, 4vT6v, a plant, " newly planted ") , a word used in the Eleusinian and other mysteries to designate the newly initiated, and in the early church
white
church
BAPTISM
rule
Ambrose
Milan in 374 and Synesius of Cyrene at Ptolemais in 409, who were chosen bishops before they were even baptized. By the council of Nicaea (325) this rule
mined
term
See Bergier, Dict. de theologie, &v.; Martigny, Dict. des antiquites, pp. 433435; Siegel, Christliche Alterthumer, iii. 17 seq. ; Riddle, Christ. Antiquities, pp. 313, 522 ; Walcott, Sacred Archaeology, s.v. End of Article: NEOPHYTE (Gr. veb4vros , from aios, new, 4vT6v, a plant, " newly planted ") If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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