A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations/Eclesaites

by Hannah Adams

ECLESAITES, the followers of Elxai (or Elcesia,) a sectary of the second century, whether Jew or Christian is uncertain; but he held the doctrine of two principles, and other points of Manicheanism. He was succeeded by Saturninus.^[1]

Original footnotes

1. Mosheim, vol. i. p. 216, new ed.