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identical with Patripassianism, the chief teachers 

 of which were Praxeas, Noetus, Epigonus, and 

 Cleomenes. But it developed into a complete 

 resolution of the Trinity into a mere threefold 

 manifestation of God to man. Father, Son, and 

 Holy Spirit are not distinct subsistences (hypos- 

 taxes), but merely one and the same person in 

 different aspects, just as the sun is at once a spheri- 

 cal body, a fountain of light, and a source of heat. 

 The single absolute Divine Essence the monas or 

 pure Deity unfolds itself in creation and the 

 history of man as a Trinity. The energy by which 

 God called into being and sustains the universe is 

 the Logos, after whose image men were created ; 

 but when they had fallen from perfection it became 

 necessary for the Logos, or Divine Energy, to 

 hypi>statUe itself in a human body, in order to 

 raise and redeem them ; hence in the man Christ 

 Jesus dwelt the fullness of the Godhead bodily ; 

 while the same Divine Energy, operating spirit- 

 ually and impersonally in the hearts of believers, 

 is the Holy Ghost. Sabellius held further that 

 these Divine manifestations are merely tempor- 

 ary, and that after the Logos and the Holy Ghost 

 haa done their work they would be reabsorlied in 

 the absolute Deity the trios would again resolve 

 itself into the monas ; or, in the language of St 

 Paul, that 'God would be all in all.' Epiphanius 

 alleges that Sabellius derived his system from an 

 apocryphal Gospel to the Egyptians ; and there are, 

 as Neander points out, so many points of resem- 

 blance in Sabellianism to the Alexandrian Jewish 

 theology in general that the statement may be 

 regarded as at least indicating the direction from 

 which proceeded the influences that determined 

 the theosophy of the unknown Pentapolitan. The 

 4th-century heresy associated with the name of 

 Marcellus of Ancyra was closely allied to Sabellian- 

 isrn, which indeed Itecornes a term employed some- 

 what loosely. The followers of Sabellius were 

 formally suppressed by the Catholic Church in the 

 4th century ; but his doctrine, which, divested of 

 its Gnostic and Neoplatonic phraseology about 

 enviiintion and re-absorption, &c. , is substantially 

 Unitarian, lias seldom wanted eminent advocates 

 in any subsequent age of Christianity. 



See the Church History of Neander ; discussions l>y 

 Schleiermacher and Langc ; Dollinger's Hippo/ytus n. 

 KaUittiu (1853; Eng. trans, by Flununer, 1876); and 

 Zahn's Marcell. v. Aneyra (1867). 



Nubians. See SAB.*ANS, M.\ M> v. \ \>. ZABISH. 



Sahine. a river of Texas, rises near the 

 northern boundary of Texas, and flows south-east 

 to the border of Louisiana, and then south, forming 

 the boundary lietween the two states. It empties 

 through Sabine Lake ( 18 miles long by 9 miles 

 wide ) into the Gulf of Mexico. The Sabine is 500 

 mil. - long, and though shallow is mostly navigable 

 for -mall steamboats. 



Sabine. See SWIM;. 



Sahine, SIR EDWARD, physicist, was born 

 in Dublin, oij the 14th October 1788. He 

 obtained a commission in the artillery in his 

 sixteenth year, and accompanied Ross and Parry 

 as astronomer in the expeditions of 1818-20 in 

 search of a north-west passage. Between 1821 

 and 1827 he undertook a series of voyages to 

 places between the equator and the north pole, 

 making at each point pendulum and magnetic 

 experiments of great value. Elected a Fellow of the 

 Royal Society in 1818, he was from 1861 to 1879 

 its president. He was for many years secretary 

 of the British Association, and filled the office 

 of president in 1853. In 1856 he was raised to 

 the rank of major-general, in 1869 he was created 

 K.I '. M., retiring as general in 1877 ; and in 1875 he 

 was elected a corresponding member of the French 



Academy. He died at Richmond, June 26, 1883, 

 aged ninety-five. His scientific reputation rests 

 chiefly upon his labours in terrestrial magnetism, 

 his various memoirs in the Philosophical Transac- 

 tions and Reports to the British Association being 

 to this clay invaluable collections of magnetic facts. 

 By his personal influence he did more than any 

 other single man in inducing the government to 

 establish magnetic observatories in different parts 

 of the world, and in initiating the valuable mag- 

 netic work now carried out by the Admiralty. 



Sabines. an ancient Italian people whose 

 original headquarters were amongst tne central 

 Apennines, but ultimately occupying an area 

 which extended down into the western plains, 

 even to Rome itself. They had for neighbours 

 Umhrians, Etruscans and Latins, and Samnites 

 (see map of Italia Antiqua). They and their 

 near kinsmen, the Samnites, constituted a group 

 sometimes called Sabeliian ; and the two or more 

 Sabellian peoples, together with the (less nearly) 

 related Umbrians, spoke Aryan Italic dialects, 

 to which the name of Umbro-Sabellian has been 

 given. According to the legend, a colony of 

 Sabines occupied the Quirinal Hill in Rome, but 

 were ultimately incorporated with the Latin 

 followers of Romulus upon the Palatine, and 

 so helped to constitute the Roman people (see 

 ROMK). The Rape of the Sabines belongs to this 

 period of legendary history. Romulus, having 

 diflioultv in finding wives for his followers ( credited 

 with a dubious reputation as runaways and male- 

 factors), invited the Sabines to a feast and games ; 

 and while the games were going on the garrison of 

 the Palatine seized the unsuspecting and unpro- 

 tected Sabine women, whom they carried off' to be 

 their wives. After several wars the Sabines out- 

 side of Rome were ultimately subjected (241 B.C.). 



Sable (Maries zibellina), a species of Marten 

 (DJ.V.), so nearly allied to the Common Marten and 

 Pine Marten that it is difficult to state satis- 

 factory specific distinctions. The feet are covered 

 with fur, even on the soles, and the tail is perhaps 

 more bushy than in the British martens. The 



Sable (Marta zil/ellina). 



length, exclusive of the tail, is about 18 inches. 

 The fur is brown, grayish yellow on the throat, 

 and small grayish-yellow spots are scattered on the 

 sides of tne neck. The whole fur is extremely 

 lustrous, and hence of the very highest value, an 

 ordinary sable skin being worth 2 to 4, 10s., 

 and one of the finest quality 28. The fur attains 

 its highest perfection in the beginning of winter, 

 and the pursuit of the sable at that season is 

 one of the most difficult and adventurous of enter- 

 prises ( see FURS ). The sable is a native of Siberia, 

 widely distributed over that country, and found in 

 its coldest regions, at least wherever forests extend. 

 The progress of geographical discovery in the 



