 | Flavius Josephus - 1809 - 658 pages
...temper is tried two more years, and it he appear to be worthy, they then admit bim into their fociety. And before he is allowed to touch their common food,...he is obliged to take tremendous oaths, that in the firft place, he will exercife piety towards God and then that he will obferve juftice towards men,... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1814 - 468 pages
...fortitude, his temper is tried twomore years, and if he appear to be worthy, they then admit him into t<ieir society. And before he is allowed to touch their common...oaths, that, in the first place, he will exercise piety towards God, and then that he will observe justice towards men, and that he will do no harm to any... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1815 - 296 pages
...temper is tried two more years, and if he appear to be worthy, they then admit him into their sc ciety. And before he is allowed to touch their common food,...oaths, that, in the first place, he will exercise piety towards God, aud then that he will observe justice towards men, and that he will do no harm to any... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1825 - 610 pages
...of purification; yet is he not even now admitted to live with them; for after this de. monstration of his fortitude, his temper is tried two more years,...oaths, that, in the first place, he will exercise piety towards God, and then that he will observe jus. tice towards men, and that he will do no harm to any... | |
 | Charles Christian Hennell - 1838 - 402 pages
...for after this demonstration of his fortitude, his temper is tried two years more, and, if he appears to be worthy, they then admit him into their society....oaths, that, in the first place, he will exercise piety towards God ; and then that he will observe justice towards men ; and that he will do no harm to any... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1852 - 712 pages
...their sect, he is not immediately admitted, but he is prescribed the same method of living which they use, for a year, while he continues excluded, and...oaths, that in the first place he will exercise piety towards God, and then that he will observe justice towards men, and that he will do no harm to any... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1856 - 604 pages
...approaches nearer to their way of living, and is made a partaker of the waters of purification ; vet is he not even now admitted to live with them ; for...food, he is obliged to take tremendous oaths, that, in tin: first place, he will exercise piety towards God, and then that he will observe justice towards... | |
 | Augustus C. L. Arnold - 1858 - 308 pages
...worthy, they then admit him into their society. And before he is allowed to touch their common food, Tie is obliged to take tremendous oaths, that in the first...will exercise piety toward God, and then that he will this rule not to swear at all. The case is the same in Christianity, as we learn from the Apostolical... | |
 | Ernst von Bunsen - 1867 - 486 pages
...society. And before he is allowed to touch their common food, he is SECRET SOCIETY OF ESS ENES. 191 obliged to take tremendous oaths ; that, in the first place, he will exercise piety towards God, and then, that he will observe justice towards men, and that he will do no harm to any... | |
 | John Woolley (rector of Athelhampton.) - 1877 - 254 pages
...they esteem it worse than perjury." " Bnt now, if any one has a mind to come over to their sect . . . before he is allowed to touch their common food he...; that, in the first place, he will exercise piety towards God; and then, that he will observe justice towards all men." Bp. Burnet on the 39th Article... | |
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And when he hath given evidence, during that time, that he can observe their continence, he approaches nearer to their way of living, and is made a partaker of the waters of purification ; yet is he not even now admitted to live with them ; for after... 
