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<p> is the name of a party of [[Alexandrian]] [[Monophysites]] formed under the leadership of an Alexandrian rhetorician or sophist named [[Stephen]] Niobes ( Νιόβης or Νιόβος ), who attempted to revive the older Monophysite doctrine in opposition to the modified form of it maintained by Damian, Monophysite patriarch of [[Alexandria]] (A.D. 570-603), who belonged to the school of [[Severus]] and the [[Phthartolatrae]] (q.v.). The particular opinion brought forward by the [[Niobites]] was that the qualities belonging, to human nature could not continue in the human nature of [[Christ]] after its amalgamation with or absorption into the divine nature. He thus took up the position that there was no logical ground for the Severian. compromise between orthodoxy and Monophysitism, and that the [[Jacobites]] ought to revert to the creed which they held before Severus came to [[Egypt]] — that which [[Dioscorus]] had maintained in opposition to the [[Council]] of Chalcedon. The Niobite party was driven out of Alexandria by Damian after the death of Niobes, and settled at Antioch, where, before the death of Damian, they gradually came around to the orthodox opinions, and became energetic supporters of the Chalcedonian doctrine. See Assemani, Biblioth. Orient, 2:72; Baur, Gesch. der Dreieinigkeitslehre, 2:92-95; Neander, Ch. Hist. 2:554. </p>

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