Author: pearl
Date: Jul 17, 2007 06:41
... called Essenes, in number something more than four thousand in my opinion, who derive their name from their piety [Greek hosiotetos = osiothtoV], though not according to any accurate form of the Grecian dialect, because they are above all men devoted to the service [therapeutai] of God, not sacrificing living animals, but studying rather to preserve their own minds in a state of holiness ...
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