[soundofgrace] Re: [soundofgrace] Timely Quiz (Moe to All) - answer

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From: ic2@...
Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 10:27:44 +0000
Here's the answer to our first quiz question.

ABELIANS Or ABELONIANS, a sect which arose in the diocese of Hippoo in Africa, 
and is supposed to have begun in the reign of Arcadius, and ended in that of 
Theodosius. Indeed, it was not calculated for being of any long continuance. 
They regulated marriage after the example of Abel, who, they pretended, was 
married, but lived in a state of continence: they therefore allowed each man 
to marry one woman, but enjoined them to live in the same state. To keep up 
the sect, when a man and woman entered into this society, they adopted a boy 
and a girl, who were to inherit their goods, and to marry upon the same terms 
of not having children, but of adopting two of different sexes. 

  Moe