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-== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_114803" /> ==
-<p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' n.) The public legislative assembly of the Athenians. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' n.) [[A]] church, either as a body or as a building. </p>
+Ecclesia <ref name="term_38440" />
+<p> (the Church), one of the eight primary Eeons in the system of Valentinus (q.v.), and held to be the archetype of the lower one on earth. The [[Gnostics]] likewise had a heavenly Church, but not a distinct being. This notion is evidently a corruption of the Scriptural idea of the heavenly Jerusalem, and tendencies to a fanciful separation of the Church triumphant and the Church militant are noticeable in the [[Shepherd]] of [[Hermas]] (Vis. 2:4) and in Clement's Second [[Epistle]] to the Corinthians (chapter 14). </p>
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+== References ==
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+<ref name="term_38440"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/ecclesia+(2) Ecclesia from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
-<ref name="term_114803"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/webster-s-dictionary/ecclesia Ecclesia from Webster's Dictionary]</ref>
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