Ebion

Proper noun

Ebion

1. The author of the Ebionite heresy.
   • Mr. Milner divides the earliest heretics into two classes—the Docetae and the Ebionites— though Bishop Horsley has shown it to be more than doubtful whether Ebion was born in the first century; and he compares the Docetae and Ebionites to the Arians and Socinians of modern times..1812, The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review, page 160
   • EBION, the author of the heresy of the Ebionites, was a disciple of Cerinthus and his successor.1829, London Encyclopaedia