 | John Woolley (rector of Athelhampton.) - 1877 - 254 pages
...does, and yet oaths were nsed by them. " Whatsoever they say," he says, " is firmer than an oath ; bnt swearing is avoided by them, and 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... | |
 | Charles Gill - 1883 - 424 pages
...follows in the footsteps of 1 Matt. xix. the Essenes, who, according to Josephus, considered swearing worse than perjury, ' for they say that he who cannot...believed without swearing by God is already condemned/ l Disavowing the vindictive spirit of Mosaic legislation, in harmony with the principles and practice... | |
 | Charles Gill - 1883 - 416 pages
...follows in the footsteps of 1 Matt. xix. the Essenes, who, according to Josephus, considered swearing worse than perjury, ' for they say that he who cannot...believed without swearing by God is already condemned.' 1 Disavowing the vindictive spirit of Mosaic legislation, in harmony with the principles and practice... | |
 | Herbert Junius Hardwicke - 1884 - 308 pages
...says grace before and after meals They do nothing but according to the injunctions of their curator Swearing is avoided by them, and they esteem it worse than perjury They take great pains in studying the writings of the ancients and they enquire after such roots and... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1890 - 476 pages
...from this romance of the Essenes adopted as true history. 8. " Whatsoever they say is firmer than an oath; but swearing is avoided by them; and they esteem it worse than perjury." We presume that nobody can fail to recognise in this great scrupulosity the memorable command of Christ,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1890 - 472 pages
...from this romance of the Essenes adopted as true history. 8. " Whatsoever they say is firmer tlian an oath; but swearing is avoided by them; and they esteem it worse than peijury." We presume that nobody can fail to recognise in this great scrupulosity the memorable command... | |
 | 1840 - 882 pages
...drawn from this romance of the Essenes adopted as true history. " Whatsoever they say is firmer than an oath ; but swearing is avoided by them ; and they esteem it worse than perjury." We presume that nobody can fail to recognise in this great scrupulosity the memorable command of Christ,... | |
 | Charles Burlingame Waite - 1908 - 600 pages
...stewards appointed to take care of their common affairs "Whatsoever they say, also, is firmer than an oath. But swearing is avoided by them; and they esteem...great pains in studying the writings of the ancients." He who joins them must take an oath that "he will neither conceal anything from those of his own sect,... | |
 | Leonard Brown - 1908 - 630 pages
...are eminent for fidelity and the the ministers of peace. Whatsoever they say also is firmer than an oath; but swearing is avoided by them, and they esteem...swearing by God, is already condemned. * * * They contemn the miseries of life, and are above pain by the generosity of their mind; and as for death,... | |
 | Edward Westermarck - 1908 - 880 pages
...liars.1 " They are eminent for fidelity," says Josephus. " Whatsoever they say also is firmer than an oath ; but swearing is avoided by them, and they esteem...believed without [swearing by] God is already condemned." 2 "Speak every man truth with his neighbour,"3 was from early times regarded as one of the most imperative... | |
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They are eminent for fidelity, and are the ministers of peace ; whatsoever they say also is firmer than an oath ; but swearing is avoided by them, and they esteem it * worse than perjury ; for they say, that he who cannot be believed, without [swearing... 
