A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations/Zaccheans

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ZACCHEANS, disciples of Zaccheus, a native of Palestine, who about the year 350 retired to a mountain near the city of Jerusalem, and there performed his devotions in secret; conceiving that prayer was only agreeable to God when performed secretly and in silence.[1]


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  1. Broughton, vol. ii. p. 516.