 | Flavius Josephus - 1809 - 658 pages
...they are ftritler than any other ot the Jews in refting trom their labours on the feventh day ; tor they not only get their food ready the day before,...kindle a fire on that day, but they will not remove any veffel out of its place, nor go to ftool thereon. Nay, on other days they dig a fmall pit. a foot deep,... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1814 - 468 pages
...them be sitting together, no one of them will speak while the other THtie are against it. They also avoid spitting in the midst of them, or on the right...Nay, on other days they dig a small pit, a foot deep, wittra paddle (which kind of hatchet is given them when they are first admitted among them) and covering... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1825 - 610 pages
...the right side. Moreover, they are stricter than any other of the Jews in resting from their laboure on the seventh day ; for they not only get their food...out of its place, nor go to stool thereon. Nay, on the other days, they dig a small pit a foot deep, with a paddle (which kind of hatchet is given them,... | |
 | Charles Christian Hennell - 1838 - 402 pages
...if ten of them be sitting together, no one of them will speak while the other nine are against it. Moreover, they are stricter than any other of the...they will not remove any vessel out of its place. " Now, after the time of their preparatory trial is over, they are parted into four classes; and so... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1856 - 604 pages
...them be sitting together, no one of them will speak while the other nine are against it. They also avoid spitting in the midst of them, or on the right...out of its place, nor go to stool thereon. Nay, on the other days, they dig a small pit a foot deep, with a paddle (which kind of hatchet is given them,... | |
 | Micaiah Hill - 1857 - 496 pages
...the Jews in resting from their labours on the seventh day ; for they not only get their food ready on the day before, that they may not be obliged to kindle...day, but they will not remove any vessel out of its plaee." — Wars of the Jews, bk. ii. ch. viii. § 9, p. 375. || See Chapter vii. § 6. tion to those... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 348 pages
...of the Jews in resting from their labours on the seventh day ; for they even get their food ready on the day before, that they may not be obliged to kindle a fire on that day. —Now then, it will be said, these Essenes, if Christians, ought not to have kept the Jewish Sabbath.... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 336 pages
...of the Jews in resting from their labours on the seventh day ; for they even get their food ready on the day before, that they may not be obliged to kindle a fire on that day. —Now then, it will be said, these Essenes, if Christians, ought not to have kept the Jewish Sabbath.... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1864 - 356 pages
...of the Jews in resting from their labors on the seventh day : for they even get their food ready on the day before, that they may not be obliged to kindle a fire on that day. — Now, then, it will be said, these Essenes, if Christians, ought not to have kept the Jewish Sabbath.... | |
 | Robert Cox - 1865 - 502 pages
...labours on the seventh day," gives as an instance of this peculiar strictness their practice of "getting their food ready the day before, that they may not be obliged to kindle a fire on that day." (Jewish War, B. I£. ch. viii. § 9 ; Whiston's Tranil., vol. iii. p. 379.) As Josephus was a Pharisee,... | |
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They also avoid spitting in the midst of them, or on the right side. Moreover, they are stricter than any other of the Jews in resting from their labours on the seventh day ; for they not only get their food ready the day before, that they may not be... 
