Agapetae
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
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Women of the early Christian church who cohabited in a state of "spiritual love" with clergy or laymen who had vowed chastity.
— It describes the Agapetae as virgins who consecrated themselves to God with a vow of chastity and associated with laymen who like themselves had taken a vow of chastity.
- Monks or clergy who cohabited with virgins and widows of the church.
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A 4th century Spanish sect founded by Agape and her husband Elpidius that rejected the institution of marriage and was deemed heretical for its perceived hedonism. Considered also to be a forerunner of Priscillianism.
— He was instructed and assisted by Agape, an honourable woman, in carrying on the secret mysteries ; and she was the mother of the Agapetae, or love-feasters ; whose rites became by degrees so very scandalous, that St. Jerome tells Oceanus "you are exposed to the teeth of detractors, unless you dismiss the assemblies of the Agapetae."
词源
Eponym from Agape + -tae
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