Ebionites

Zell's Condensed Dictionary · 1879 · p. 17

(eb'e-on-itz.) [Heb., poor.] (Eccl. Hist.) A sect of the 2d cent. They believed that Jesus was simply a man distinguished above all others for legal piety -preeminently aJew, and selected as the Me iah because ofhis superior Judaism. [s. 314]