Lexicographical Neighbors of Ophites
Literary usage of Ophites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Christian Church by John Fletcher Hurst (1897)
"Hence the term ophites, applied to the sect.' Man, through his fall, arrives at the
... A vein of pantheism pervades the whole system of the ophites. ..."
2. Manual of Universal Church History by Johannes Baptist Alzog, Francis Joseph Pabisch, Thomas Sebastian Byrne (1889)
"THE ANTI-JEWISH ophites. Iren. I. 30. Clement. Alex. Stromata, lib. ... Valentinus is
only a more elaborate development of the simpler form of the ophites. ..."
3. A Text-book of Church History by Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler (1857)
"The christology of the ophites is altogether like that of Valentinus, with this
difference, that Jesus is the psychical, Christ the pneumatic Messiah.12 The ..."
4. General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander, Alexander James William Morrison (1851)
"THE ophites. The ophites will form the most natural transition to this class of
the Gnostics; for we are here shown how the same ideas, by a slightly ..."
5. Institutes of Ecclesiastical History: Ancient and Modern by Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1832)
"Hence there were two sects of ophites, a Christian sect, and an anti-christian.
The Christian ophites held nearly the same absurd notions, with the other ..."
6. Historical Sketches of the Town of Leicester, Massachusetts, During the by Emory Washburn (1874)
"THE ANTI-JEWISH ophites. Iren. I. 30. Clement. Alex. Stromata, lib. ... Valentinus is
only a more elaborate development of the simpler form of the ophites. ..."
7. A General Survey of the History of the Canon of the New Testament by Brooke Foss Westcott (1881)
"TAe ophites. The Of kites described iy Hippolytus. [PART history of Christianity
in its developments within and without the Church, we find more surely that ..."
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