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1 Apr 2020

The Wineskin Sect


Ascitae ab utre appellati sunt, ἀσκός enim graece latine uter dicitur, quem perhibentur inflatum et opertum circuire bacchantes tamquam ipsi sint evangelici utres novi novo vino repleti.

Sanctus Augustinus Hipponensis, De Haeresibus ad Quodvultdeum

Source: Migne PL 42.42

The Ascitae are named from the wineskin, for the Greek 'askos'  is wineskin in Latin, which inflated and closed they dance around like bacchants, since they are the evangelical new wineskins full with new wine.

Saint Augustine of Hippo, On Heresies, To Quodvultdeus.

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