 | Flavius Josephus - 1809 - 658 pages
...every one's polfeflionsare intermingled with every other's poffeflions.and io there is,as it Wtre.one patrimony among all the brethren. They think that oil is a defilement; and if any one of them be anointed, without bis own approbation, it is wiped off his body ; for they think to... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1814 - 468 pages
...than another ; for it is a law among them, that those who come to them, must let what they have be common to the whole order, insomuch .that, among'...brethren. They think that oil is a defilement; and if any one of them be anointed, without his own approbation, it is wiped off his body ; for they think to... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1825 - 610 pages
...i lian another ; for it is a law among them, that those who come to them must let what they have be common to the whole order, insomuch that among them...other's possessions, and so there is, as it were, one pa. trimony among all the brethren. They think that oil is a defilement ; and if any of them be anointed,... | |
 | 1840 - 906 pages
...as raises our admiration. Nor is there any one to be found among them who hath more than another ; every one's possessions are intermingled with every...as it were, one patrimony among all the brethren." In this account of the " communicativeness," as to temporal wealth, of the third sect, it ishardly... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1852 - 712 pages
...more than another , for it is a law among them, that those who come to them must let what they have be common to the whole order, insomuch that among them...the brethren. They think that oil is a defilement l and if any one of them be anointed, without his own approbation, it is wiped off his body ; for they... | |
 | 1852 - 950 pages
...God. "It is a law among them," says Josephus, " that those who come to them must let what they have be common to the whole order, insomuch, that among them...there is, as it were, one patrimony among all the brethren.1'* • Joiephtu : BJ, Book 11. chap. тШ. $ 3. There is nothing improbable in the conjecture... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 362 pages
...communicative, as raises our admiration. Nor is there any one to be found among them who hath more than another; every one's possessions are intermingled with every...as it were, one patrimony among all the brethren.' In this account of the ' communicativeness,' as to temporal wealth, of the third sect, it is hardly... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 366 pages
...communicative, as raises our admiration. Nor is there any one to be found among them who hath more than another; every one's possessions are intermingled with every...as it were, one patrimony among all the brethren.' In this account of the ' communicativeness,' as to temporal wealth, of the third sect, it is hardly... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 372 pages
...communicative, as raises our admiration. Nor is there any one to be found among them who hath more than another; every one's possessions are intermingled with every...as it were, one patrimony among all the brethren.' In this account of the ' communicativeness,' as to temporal wealth, of the third sect, it is hardly... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1856 - 604 pages
...to them must let what they have be common to the whole order, insomuch that among them all there to no appearance of poverty or excess of riches, but...other's possessions, and so there is, as it were, one pa. trimony among all the brethren. They think that oil is a defilement ; and if any of them be anointed,... | |
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These men are despisers of riches, and so very communicative as raises our admiration. Nor is there any one to be found among them who hath more than another; for it is a law among them, that those who come to them must let what they have be common to... 
