Nazarene Synonyms

năzə-rēn, năzə-rēn
A member of a group of Jews who (during the early history of the Christian Church) accepted Jesus as the Messiah; they accepted the Gospel According to Matthew but rejected the Epistles of St. Paul and continued to follow Jewish law and celebrate Jewish holidays; they were later declared heretic by the Church of Rome
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. ebionite

Nazarene Sentence Examples

  • They could not be expected necessarily to understand common scriptural symbolism let alone the arcane speeches of the Nazarene.

  • What was said above of the Christology of the Petrine speeches applies to the whole conception of Messianic salvation, the eschatology, the idea of Jesus as equipped by the Holy Spirit for His Messianic work, found in these speeches, as also to titles like " Jesus the Nazarene " and " the Righteous One " both in and beyond the Petrine speeches.

  • Ulla said, ' Would it be supposed that [Jeshu the Nazarene] a revolutionary, had aught in his favor?

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