Lectionary Calendar
Thursday, November 21st, 2024
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Coelicolae
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
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("worshippers of heaven"), the name of an African sect in the 4th century, who appear to have blended together some parts of Judaism and Paganism with Christianity. An edict of Honorius (A. D. 408) forbids their assemblages and demands their disbandment. As they are counted in this edict among the heretics, and as they were not subject to the jurisdiction of the Jewish patriarch, but had their own chiefs, called majores, and as they had a kind of baptism, they are by some regarded as a Christian sect. By others they are regarded as an offshoot of the Essenes. See Schmid, Historia Caelicolarum (Helmst 1704). — Gieseler, Church History, 1, § 73; Bingham, Orig. Eccl. 16:6, 2.
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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Coelicolae'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/c/coelicolae.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Coelicolae'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/c/coelicolae.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
