ADOPTIVI, or Adoptiani, was an ancient sect in religion; thus called, from the manner in which they conceived our Savior to be the Son of God.They took their rise from Felix of Urgel, and Elipand of Toledo; the latter of whom writing to the former, for an account of his faith in that point, was answered that according to the use of the language which obtains in respect of human nature, Jesus was not the natural, but only the adoptive Son of God.
This opinion they both afterward propagated, towards the close of the 8th century. And both were convicted and condemned; and both abjured their error.
