[1] The Summa contra haereticos, ascribed to Praepositinus of Cremona, describes the Pasagians as retaining the Old Testament rules on circumcision, kosher foods, and the Jewish holy days; in other words, they observed the Law of Moses except in respect to sacrifices, and thus also were given the name Circumcisi.
[1] They likely considered Christ the highest begotten being, and they had a demiurge (δημιουργός Greek for Creator) by whom all other creatures were thought to have been brought into being, citing both the Old and New Testaments in support of their doctrine.
[1] As late as the eleventh century Cardinal Humbert of Silva Candida referred to a sect of Nazarenes, a Sabbath-keeping Christian body existing at that time.
[1] The following report is found in a work written by Gregory of Bergamo, about 1250, against the Cathars and Pasaginians: “After what has been said of the Cathari, there still remains the sect of the Pasagini.
The way in which they expressed themselves concerning Christ as being the first-born of creation, would point also, more directly, at the connection of their doctrine with some older Jewish theology, than at that later purely Western origin.”[4]