THE ESSENES: THEIR HISTORY AND DOCTRINES. AN ESSAY, REPRINTED FROM THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF LIVERPOOL. BY CHRISTIAN D. GINSBURG, LL.D. ἑν παντὶ ἔθνει ὁ φοβούμενος αὐτὸν καὶ ἐργαζόμενος δικαιοσύνην δεκτὸς αὐτῷ ἐστιν Acts X, 35. LONDON: LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, ROBERTS, AND GREEN. 1864. THE ESSENES. I. It is very surprising that the Essenes, whose exemplary Virtues elicited the unbounded admiration of even the Greeks and Romans, and whose doctrines and practices contributed so materially to the spread of Christianity, should be so little known among intelligent Christians. The current information upon this remarkable sect or order of Judaism, to be found in…
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