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HEMEROBAPTISTS

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 257 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HEMEROBAPTISTS , an See also:

ancient Jewish See also:sect, so named from their observing a practice of daily See also:ablution as an essential See also:part of See also:religion. See also:Epiphanius (Panarion, i. 17), who mentions their See also:doctrine as the See also:fourth See also:heresy among the See also:Jews, classes the Hemerobaptists doctrinally with the See also:Pharisees (q.v.) from whom they differed only in, like the See also:Sadducees, denying the resurrection of the dead. The name has been sometimes given to the See also:Mandaeans on See also:account of their frequent ablutions; and in the Clementine Homilies (ii. 23) St See also:John the Baptist is spoken of as a Hemerobaptist. Mention of the sect is made by See also:Hegesippus (see Euseb. Hist. Eccl. iv. 22) and by See also:Justin See also:Martyr in the See also:Dialogue with Trypho, § 80. They were probably a See also:division of the See also:Essenes.

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