Judaistic

The Essenes, who, though they possessed certain doctrines and followed certain practices of their own, were still basically Judaistic, had to assume, like the Old Testament prophets, that their miseries had been willed by God.

Like Aristo of Pella he belonged to that group of Judaistic Christians which, while keeping the law themselves, did not attempt to impose on others the requirements of circumcision and Sabbath observance.

This was in fact the tendency, if not the express purpose of the Judaistic party in the Church.

We note, in the first place, its protean and capricious form, half Judaistic, half philosophical—ascetic in one direction, libertine in another: “tossed by the waves, and carried about with every wind.”

Judaistic Christians, such as those who at Rome “preached Christ of envy and strife,” were also disseminating an imperfect Christian doctrine.