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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—D

Donatists

Followers of Donatus, a Numidian bishop who opposed Cecilianus. Their chief dogma is that the outward church is nothing, “for the letter killeth, it is the spirit that giveth life.” (Founded 314.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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