ALOGII

ALOGII, or Alogians, a Sect of ancient Heretics;who denied that Jesus Christ was the Eternal Word. See ARIAN.

Theodore of Byzantium, by Trade a Currier, having apostatized, under the Persecution of the Emperor Severus, to defend himself against those who reproached him therewith, said; That it was not God he denied, but only Man.Whence his Followers were called in Greek alogoi, in regard they rejected the Word; from the Privative a, and logos, Verbum.

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