HERODIANS

A sect existing among the Jews at the period of our Saviour's preaching. (See Matthew, c. xvi.; Mark, c. viii., v. 15.) Much doubt e\is is as to their histoiy and tenets: some commentators, both ancient and modern, imagine that they were fanatics, who regarded Herod tin Great as the Me iah; others, that they were n mere iwlirical party, attached to the family of Herod; while a third opinion (Bergier, Diction a ire d'e Theologic) is, that they gio us supported observances some innovations of the country attempted by the by partial He rod introduction in the reli*- Ofi., 311.)pagan usages. (See Milmaii's History of Christianity, [s. 571]