The Stratiotici were a gnostic sect, a subgroup of the

Borborites According to the '' Panarion'' of Epiphanius of Salamis (ch. 26), and Theodoret's ''Haereticarum Fabularum Compendium'', the Borborites or Borborians ( el, Βορβοριανοί; in Egypt, Phibionites; in other countries, Koddians, Barbelites, ...

. Little else is known about them besides what the Church Fathers wrote on them.

Description

The sect were a sub-group of the Borborians, R. Bruce Elder - of which the ''Coddians'', ''Stratiotici'' and the ''Phibiomites'' had together a family connection to Gnostics. The name deriving from ''stratos'' which in the Greek language meant ''army'', or ''soldierly'' ( ''soldiers'' of (Walker 1983) ) as a translation from the Latin. The names attributed to sects were possibly only those given by their enemies. Little is known of the sect as rituals were practised in secrecy, scriptures were unwritten by the practitioners, resulting on the necessary reliance of accounts of their practice in the writings of the '' holy church fathers.''p.158 of ''Gnosticism - Its History and Influence'' - Benjamin Walker 198
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Insight

The sect and other self defining gnostics were the subject of criticism by the Church Fathers, these finding evidence of heresy and blasphemy caused by a corruption of the truth of Christian doctrine. This the fathers may have attributed to the former weight of their

ancestral sin Ancestral sin, generational sin, or ancestral fault ( grc-koi, προπατορικὴ ἁμαρτία; ; ), is the doctrine that individuals inherit the judgement for the sin of their ancestors. It exists primarily as a concept in Mediterranean r ...

or the result of persons with

unclean spirit In English translations of the Bible, unclean spirit is a common rendering of Greek ''pneuma akatharton'' (πνεῦμα ἀκάθαρτον; plural ''pneumata akatharta'' (πνεύματα ἀκάθαρτα)), which in its single occurrence in ...

References

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