Manichean meaning

6, 8., The title "elect one," used by the Armenian Paulicians also has a Manichean ring.

Of the nine fundamental laws of that Priscillian, whose widespread heresy evoked from the synod of Saragossa (418) the canon, " No one shall fast on Sunday, nor may any one absent himself from church during Lent and hold a festival of his own," appears, on the question of fasting, not to have differed from the Encratites and various other sects of Manichean tendency (c. 406).

The term "rulers" appears to be derived from Manichean speculation, or from the same cycle of myth which is reflected in Cor.

In Augustine's work against Faustus the Manichean (xx.

The Paulicians were, according to Esc., Manicheans, so called after Paul of Samosata, son of a Manichean woman Callinice.