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AQUARII

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 237 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AQUARII  , a name given to the Christians who substituted

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water for
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wine in the
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Eucharist . They were not a
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sect, for we find the practice widely in
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vogue at an
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early
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time, even among the orthodox . In
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Greek they were called Hydroparastatae, or those who offer water .
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Theodosius, in his persecuting
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edict of 382, classes them as a
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special sect with the Manicheans, who also eschewed wine . See EUCHARIST .

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