MACED ON I ANS

So called from Maced on i us, a bishop of Constantinople, deposed from his see by a council of 360, and also Pneuma to machi ans , from πνεῦμα , ( Spiritus ,) and μάχομαι , ( pug no ,) from their distinctive error: a sect of heretics who arose in the fourth century, who denied the separate personality of the Holy Ghost . They were condemned by the second general council, (of Constantinople,) anno 381, and against their errors the expansion of the latter portion of the Nicene Creed was directed: “I believe in the Holy Ghost , the Lord and giver of life, who proceed eth from the Father and the Son , who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified, who spake by the prophets.”