A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations/Eustathians

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EUSTATHIANS, a rigid denomination in the fourth century, so called from Eustathius, a monk. He prohibited marriage, the use of wine and flesh, and obliged his followers to quit all they had as incompatible with the hopes of heaven.[1]


Original footnotes[edit]

  1. Mosheim, vol. i. p. 313.