Brewer's: Ebionism

The doctrine that the poor only shall be saved. Ebion, plural ebionim (poor).

“At the end of the second century the Ebionites were treated as heretics, and a pretended leader (Ebion) was invented by Tertullian to explain the name.” —Renan: Life of Jesus, chap. xi.

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