 | 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 - 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,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1877 - 670 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 jure on that day. — Now, then, it will be said, these Essenes, if Christians, ought not to have kept... | |
 | 1879 - 820 pages
...143). The quotation is : " They are stricter than any other of the Jews in resting from their labors on the seventh day; for they not only get their food...they will not remove any vessel out of its place," etc. (Wars, Bk. ii. c. 8). Contrary to Fairbairn's inference, the passage implies, we think, that other... | |
 | Isaac Schwab - 1888 - 336 pages
...other class of the Jewish people (Wars, ii. 8, 9). In illustrating their Sabbath rigor he says : " They not only get their food ready the day before, that they may -not have (or, be tempted) to kindle a fire on that day, etc." If this account means anything as peculiar... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey, David Masson - 1897 - 472 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.... | |
 | Charles Foster Kent - 1911 - 360 pages
...others of the Jews in resting from their labors on the seventh day, for they not only prepare their food the day before, that they may not be obliged to kindle a fire on that day, but they will not venture to move any vessel out of its place. They are also long-lived, insomuch that most of them live... | |
 | Charles Theodore Fritsch - 1972 - 174 pages
...part. Accordingly, if ten of them be sitting together, no one of them will speak while the other nine are against it. They also avoid spitting in the midst...Nay, on other days they dig a small pit, a foot deep, with a paddle (which kind of hatchet is given them, when they are first admitted among them ) , and... | |
 | Lawrence H. Schiffman - 1998 - 812 pages
...or on the right side. Moreover, they are stricter than any other Jews in resting from their labors on the seventh day, for they not only get their food ready the day before so that they may not be obliged to kindle a fire on that day, but they will not remove any vessel out... | |
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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 obliged... 
