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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

For still nine years he remained a Manichee.

From Saint Augustin by O'Sullivan, Vincent

Manichee, lib. ix. ch. vi. sect. xvi. in Anac., vol. ii. p.

From Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning by Doane, T. W.

In her innocence, too,—why, a Manichee would have done it for her own sake.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 by Various

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 Eliot, Charles, Sir