A follower of Carpocrates of Alexandria (A.D. 120), who asserted the mortality of Christ’s body and the creation of the world by angels. Also † Carpocratite.
1585–7. T. Rogers, 39 Art. (1607), 64–5. Some deemed themselues as pure … as Iesus Christ himselfe, as the Carpocratians.
1677. Gilpin, Dæmonol. (1867), 138. The filthy Carpocratians, who taught that men must sin and do the will of all the devils.
1882–3. Schaff, Relig. Encycl., II. 880. The Antinomianism of the Carpocratians.
1579. Fulke, Confut. Sanders, 590. The Gnostikes and Carpocratites, haue Images painted in collours … which they say be the Images of Iesus.
