Nazarene

(noun.) an inhabitant of Nazareth.

(noun.) an early name for any Christian.

(noun.) 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.

(adj.) of or relating to the town of Nazareth or its inhabitants .

(adj.) of or relating to the Nazarenes or their religion .

杰里手打

• The Nazarene girls are homely. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• At the same time the servant informed Isaac, that a Nazarene (so they termed Christians, while conversing among themselves) desired to speak with him. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• One Nazarene warrior might indeed bear arms in my behalf, even Wilfred, son of Cedric, whom the Gentiles call Ivanhoe. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• He found the Nazarenes with a spirit and hope, and he left them Christians with the beginning of a creed. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• And it is clear that the faith of the Nazarenes, which he found as a doctrine of motive and a way of living, he made into a doctrine of _belief_. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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