Note 18 — Chapter VII · POST-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS

So that the members of the little Church of Pella who retained the name of Jews gradually ceased to be regarded as orthodox by the other Christian communities and were called Ebionites. See Renan, L’Antéchrist, p. 548. Cf. Fuller in Dict. Christian Biog. s.v. Ebionites for authorities. The connection that Fuller would find between the Essenes and the Ebionites seems to rest on little proof.