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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Sabel’lians.
 
A religious sect; so called from Sabellius, a Libyan priest of the third century. They believed in the unity of God, and said that the Trinity merely expressed three relations or states of one and the same God.   1
 


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