Dictionary/Ecclesiastical/Arabici

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Arabici. Heretics of the third century, who attacked the immortality of the soul, without, however, denying that it has another life. They maintained that the soul would die with the body, and rise again with it. These heretics held a great assembly, in Arabia, in regard to this question, at which Origen was present. He spoke there with such firmness and conviction that many of those who had fallen into this error, immediately abandoned it.