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CERDONIANS , a Gnostic See also:

SECT

sect, founded by Cerdo, a Syrian, who came to See also:

Rome about 137, but concerning whose See also:

HISTORY

history little is known. They held that there are two first causes--the perfectly See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good and the perfectly evil. The latter is also the creator of the See also:

WORLD

world, the See also:

god of the See also:

Jews, and the author of the Old Testament. Jesus See also:

Christ is the son of the good deity; he was sent into the world to oppose the evil; but his incarnation, and therefore his sufferings, were a See also:

mere See also:

APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance. Regarding the See also:

BODY

body as the See also:

WORK

work of the evil deity, the Cerdonians formed a moral See also:

SYSTEM

system of See also:

GREAT

great severity, prohibiting See also:

MARRIAGE

marriage, See also:

WINE (Lat. vinum, Gr. oivos)

wine and the eating of flesh, and advocating See also:

FASTING (from " fast," derived from old Teutonic fastejan; synonyms being the Gr. vnorebety, late Lat. jejunare)

fasting and other austerities. Most of what the Fathers narrate of Cerdo's tenets has probably been transferred to him from his famous See also:

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil See also:

MARCION

Marcion, like whom he is said to have rejected the Old Testament and the New, except See also:

PART

part of See also:

Luke's See also:

GOSPEL (O. Eng. godspel, i.e. good news, a translation of Lat. bona annuntiatio, or evangelium, Gr. evayyeXwv; cf. Goth. iu spillon, " to announce good news," Ulfilas' translation of the Greek, from iu, that which is good, and spellon to announce)

Gospel and of See also:

Paul's Epistles.

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