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Apelleans

Charles Buck Theological Dictionary

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So called from Apelles, in the second century. They affirmed that Christ, when he came down from heaven, received a body not from the substance of his mother, but from the four elements, which at his death he rendered back to the world, and so ascended into heaven without a body.

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Buck, Charles. Entry for 'Apelleans'. Charles Buck Theological Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​cbd/​a/apelleans.html. 1802.
 
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