A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations/Eutuchites

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EUTUCHITES, a kind of religious stoics in the third century, who held that our souls are placed in our bodies to honour the angles, who created them; and that we ought to rejoice equally in all events, because to grieve, would be to dishonour our creators.[1]


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  1. Broughton, vol. ii. p. 532.