 | 1840 - 882 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... | |
 | Leonard Brown - 1908 - 630 pages
...among them that those who come to them must let what they have be common to the whole order, in so much that among them all there is no appearance of poverty...possessions are intermingled with every other's possessions, so there is as it were, one patrimony among all the brethren. They have no certain city, but many of... | |
 | Isaac Landman, Simon Cohen - 1943 - 722 pages
...of riches — for there 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...is no appearance of poverty or excess of riches but everyone's possession are intermingled with every other's possessions." The Essene disregard for personal... | |
 | Charles Theodore Fritsch - 1972 - 174 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...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 be... | |
 | Lawrence H. Schiffman - 1998 - 812 pages
...a law among them that those who join them must let what they have be common to the whole order. For among them all there is no appearance of poverty or excess of riches, but everyone's possessions are intermingled with every other's possessions, and so there is, as it were,... | |
 | Lawrence H. Schiffman - 2003 - 436 pages
...a law among them that those who join them must let what they have be common to the whole order. For among them all there is no appearance of poverty or excess of riches, but everyone's possessions are intermingled with every other's possessions, and so there is, as it were,... | |
 | Flavius Josephus, William Whiston, David Samuel Margoliouth - 2004 - 500 pages
...insomuch that among them all there is no appearance of poverty, or excess of riches, but everyone's possessions are intermingled with every other's possessions;...brethren. They think that oil is a defilement; and if anyone of them be anointed without his own approbation, it is wiped off his body; for they think to... | |
 | Shalomim Y. Halahawi - 2007 - 468 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...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 be... | |
 | Reta Halteman Finger - 2007 - 337 pages
...Josephus's account in particular sounds like the description of an especially tight-knit fictive kin group: There is no appearance of poverty or excess of riches,...were, one patrimony among all the brethren. . . . They also have stewards appointed to take care of their common affairs, who every one of them have no separate... | |
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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... 
