Semi-Pelagianism
in Church history, a modification of the doctrines of the Pelagians, consisting chiefly in maintaining the sufficiency of man's natural power, only so far as regards the first act of conversion to God, and the initial act of man's repentance for sin. Semi- Pelagianism took its rise in 428, from John Cassian, a pupil of Chrysostom at Marseilles. The Council of Orange, July V-Cyc Vol 8 SEMIQUAVER 3, 529, established the Augustinian doctrines in opposition to those of the Pelagians and Semi-Pelagians, as did that of Valencia, in July or August, 530; and Pope Boniface II. confirmed the decree in 530.
SEMITES 4000 B. C. the Semites migrated as nomadic tribes, probably from Arabia, into Mesopotamia. There they found a Turanian population dwelling in cities built of brick, under the regular government of priest kings, skilled in the use of metals, using the cuneiform mode of