Nazarene
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-A native or inhabitant of Nazareth.
-Refers to Nazareth.
-An early name for any Christian. -
A person who likes to live freely but likes to talk alot about other people's business. She is usually found in a different group every day. She is popular and good looking but no one really notices her.
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a member of a group of Jews who (during the early history of the Christian Church) accepted Jesus as the Messiah; they accepted the Gospel According to Matthew but rejected the Epistles of St. Paul and continued to follow Jewish law and celebrate Jewish holidays; they were later declared heretic by the Church of Rome
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an early name for any Christian
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(u03BAu03B1u03C4 u03B5u03BEu03BFu03C7u03AEu03BD) Jesus Christ. Usually with the.
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Of or pertaining to Nazareth or its people.
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Of or relating to the Church of the Nazarene.
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Nazarene is commonly used to refer to someone who originates from Nazareth, a town in Israel. Historically, it is most notably used as a title for Jesus Christ in the New Testament of the Bible, leading to its use within various Christian denominities such as the Church of the Nazarene.
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The Nazarenes were a sect of 4th-century Christianity first mentioned by Epiphanius of Salamis, who considered them heretics. The group was later mentioned by Jerome and Augustine of Hippo.
Epiphanius, and other writers such as Jerome, distinguished the 4th Century Nazarenes from the earlier use of Sect of the Nazarenes applied to the New Testament Church in Acts 24:5, where Paul the Apostle is accused before Felix at Caesarea by Tertullus of being a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes. -
Members of the Church of the Nazarene.
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