Brewer's: Origenists

An early Christian sect who drew their opinions from the writings of Origen. They maintained Christ to be the Son of God only by adoption, and denied the eternity of future punishments.

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