QUARTODECIMANS. This Name was given to certain Hereticks, who kept Numb. xi. 32. Easter-day always upon the Fourteenth Day of the Moon, upon whatsoever Day it happen’d: Whereas most of the Churches kept it upon the Sunday that follow’d the Fourteenth Day of the Moon. The Quartodecimans were a Branch of the Sect of the Montanists and Quintilians, according to Epiphanius. Yet they have not been properly Epiphan. hæref. 50. c. 1. Concil. Nic. can. 21. Arab.treated as Hereticks, but since the Council of Nice, which ordain’d, That all the Churches should keep Easter-day on the Sunday that follow’d the Fourteenth Day of the Moon.
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