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Eunomians
Charles Buck Theological Dictionary
or A sect in the fourth century. They were a branch of Arians, and took their name from Eumonius, bishop of Cyzicus. Cave, in his Historia Literaria, vol. 1: p. 223, gives the following account of their faith. "There is one God, uncreated and without beginning; who has nothing existing before him, for nothing can exist before what is uncreated; nor with him, for what is uncreated must be one; nor in him, for God is a simple and uncompounded being. This one simple and eternal being is God, the creator and ordainer of all things; first indeed, and principally of his only begotten Son; and then through him of all other things. For God begat, created, and made the Son only by his direct operation and power, before all things, and every other creature; not producing, however, any being like himself, or imparting any of his own proper substance to the Son! for God is immortal, uniform, indivisible; and therefore cannot communicate any part of his own proper substance to another. He alone is unbegotten; and it is impossible that any other being should be formed of an unbegotten substance. He did not use his own substance in begetting the Son, but his will only; nor did he beget him in the likeness of his substance, but according to his own good pleasure; he then created the Holy Spirit, the first and greatest of all spirits, by his own power, in deed and operation mediately; yet by the immediate power and operation of the Son. After the Holy Spirit, he created all other things, in heaven and in earth, visible and invisible, corporeal and incorporeal, mediately by himself, by the power and operation of the Son, &c." The reader will evidently see how near these tenets are to those of Arianism.
See ARIANS.
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Buck, Charles. Entry for 'Eunomians'. Charles Buck Theological Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/cbd/e/eunomians.html. 1802.
