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Before they experienced grace, Paul was a Christian-persecuting Pharisee and Augustine was a brilliant, dissolute young Manichee about 4th Century Carthage.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a long time now since Augustin had been a Manichee in his heart.
From Saint Augustin by Vincent O'Sullivan
He had gone to the dwelling of one of his Manichee brethren, an auditor like himself, and an excellent kind of man, whom he stayed with all the time he was in Rome.
From Saint Augustin by Vincent O'Sullivan
Himself a Manichee, converted by Augustin, and a member of one of the leading families in Thagaste, he had not long to wait for an important appointment in the Imperial administration.
From Saint Augustin by Vincent O'Sullivan
The Caliph Ma'mun was so fond of religious speculation and discussion that he was suspected of being a Manichee and nicknamed Amiru-'l-Kafirin, Commander of the Unbelievers.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Sir Charles Eliot
