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HEMEROBAPTISTS
, an See also:ancient Jewish See also:sect, so named from their observing a practice of daily See also:ablution as an essential See also:part of See also:religion
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See also:Epiphanius (Panarion, i
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17), who mentions their See also:doctrine as the See also:fourth See also:heresy among the See also:Jews, classes the Hemerobaptists doctrinally with the See also:Pharisees (q.v.) from whom they differed only in, like the See also:Sadducees, denying the resurrection of the dead
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The name has been sometimes given to the See also:Mandaeans on See also:account of their frequent ablutions; and in the Clementine Homilies (ii
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