22 examples of essenes in sentences

He should be like the Essenes, of whom Josephus saith, that everything spoken by them was more valid than an oath; whence they declined swearing.

Jesus was largely influenced by the Essenes, but he rejected their austerity.

Section CXIV THE PHARISEES, SADDUCEES, AND ESSENES Jos. Ant.

Of the Essenes. Section CXV.

He then spent three years with the Jewish sect known as the Essenes.

THE PHARISEES, SADDUCEES, AND ESSENES [Sidenote: Jos. Ant. XVIII, 1:2, 3a-c]

The Jews have three sects of philosophy: the Essenes, the Sadducees, and those called Pharisees.

XVIII, 1:5a, b] The doctrine of the Essenes is that all things are best left to God.

War, II, 8:2, 13a] The Essenes seem to have a greater affection for each other than do the other sects.

There is also another order of Essenes, who agree with the rest in regard to their way of living, customs and laws, but differ from them in regard to marriage, for they think that by not marrying they will cut off the most important element in human life, which is the succession of mankind.

The Essenes evidently represent a reaction against the prevailing moral corruption.

Character and Beliefs of the Essenes.

Less important but even more interesting are the Essenes.

If the Essenes represented simply an extreme type of Pharisaism, the peculiar form of its development was undoubtedly due to the Greek atmosphere amidst which it flourished.

The Essenes do not appear to have had any direct influence in the politics of their day.

While according to Josephus the party of the Essenes at one time numbered four thousand, like all ascetic movements it soon disappeared or else was deflected into that greater stream of monasticism which rose in the early Christian centuries.

This was evidently the type of messianic hope held by the Pharisees as well as the Essenes.

The Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes.

The characteristics of the sect of the Essenes. 7.

The Jewish sect of the Essenes, who approached nearer than any other secret institution of antiquity to Freemasonry in their organization, always invested their novices with a white robe.

Thus the Ineffable Name itself, of which we have been discoursing, is said to have been preserved in its true pronunciation by the Essenes, who, in their secret rites, communicated it to each other only in a whisper, and in such form, that while its component parts were known, they were so separated as to make the whole word a mystery.

It was also used by the Essenes in their sacred rites, and by the Egyptians as a pass-word.

22 examples of  essenes  in sentences