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According to the Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis (ch. 26), and Theodoret's Haereticarum Fabularum Compendium, the Borborites or Borborians (Greek: Βορβοριανοί; in Egypt, Phibionites; in other countries, Koddians, Barbelites, Secundians, Socratites, Zacchaeans, Stratiotics) were a Christian Gnostic sect, said to be descended from the Nicolaitans. It is difficult to know for sure the practices of the group, as both Epiphanius and Theodoret were opponents of the group. According to Epiphanius, the sect were libertines who embraced the pleasures of the earthly world.
pleasures of the earthly world. The word Borborite comes from the Greek word βόρβορος, meaning "mud"; the name Borborites can therefore be translated as "filthy...
substituting Caulacau for Yaldabaoth. In his next article, on the "Gnostici", or Borborites (83 C D), the idea of the recovery of the scattered powers of Barbēlō...
into various sectarian Gnostic groups such as the Archontics, Audians, Borborites, and Phibionites, and perhaps Stratiotici, and Secundians. Some of these...
Smith-Cumming noted of his agents that "Every man (is) his own stylo". The Borborites, also known as the Phibionites, were an early Christian Gnostic sect during...
by Epiphanius (Panarion, 26), a church father who criticised how the Borborites used it to justify free love, by practicing coitus interruptus and eating...
the savior knows her well. That is why he loved her more than us." The Borborites, also known as the Phibionites, were an early Christian Gnostic sect during...
his own letters for publication. Antinatalism Antinomianism Antitactae Borborites Catharism Christianity in the ante-Nicene period Gnosticism List of Gnostic...
into various sectarian Gnostic groups, like the Archontics, Audians, Borborites, and Phibionites. Some of these groups existed into the Middle Ages. Various...
The Stratiotici were a gnostic sect, a subgroup of the Borborites. Little else is known about them besides what the Church Fathers wrote on them. The sect...
attack led Sethianism to fragment into numerous smaller groups (Audians, Borborites, Archontics and perhaps Phibionites, Stratiotici, and Secundians). Plotinus'...
prototype of the saved gnostic." According to Epiphanius of Salamis, the Borborites identified Norea with Pyrrha, the wife of Deucalion (a Greek figure similar...
become distinct from each other due to a historical schism. Elcesaites Borborites Euchites Ebionites Marcionism Bardaisan Archontics Quqites van Bladel...
Salamis, for instance, claims that a libertine Gnostic sect known as the Borborites engaged in a version of the Eucharist in which they would smear their...
the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes." — Albert Barnes, New Testament Notes Borborites Didache Revelation 2. "Revelation 2:6 - To the Church in Ephesus". Bible...
rash expressions of Greek culture: fate, fortune, misfortune. p. 103-104 Borborites Cainites Ebionites Epiphanes (gnostic) Fathers of Christian Gnosticism...
rectification is the limiting or concluding of human reproduction. Audianism Borborites Childlessness Voluntary childlessness Human population planning Nihilism...
derivative and other sectarian gnostic groups such as the Archontics, Audians, Borborites, Phibionites and others, some of which survived into the Middle Ages."...
Hammadi Library) The Gospel of Thomas The Greek Gospel of the Egyptians Borborites Mandaeism Nehushtan Perates Sethianism Snake worship The Worship of the...
which are delivered in silence. Ophites Naassenes Sethians Mandaeans Borborites Strom, vii. 17. See Julius Africanus, ix. in Routh's Reliquiae, ii. 244...
uprisings by dissident Christian movements in the country, particularly the Borborites, Messalians, Paulicianists and Tondrakians. With the peace of Acilisene...