The austere life of the Essenians, their fasts and excommunications, the community of goods, the love of celibacy, their zeal for martyrdom, and the warmth though not the purity of their faith, already offered a very lively image of the primitive discipline. A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific, Or a Physical, Political, and ... - Pągina 295per James Bell - 1832Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 530 pągines
...an easy entrance to the new religion. It was at first embraced by great numbers of the Therapeutae, or Essenians of the lake Mareotis, a Jewish sect which had abated much of its reverence for tfye Mosaic ceremonies. The austere life of the Essenians, their fasts and excommunications, the community... | |
| Josiah Conder - 1827 - 384 pągines
...entrance to the new religion.* It was first embraced by great numbers of the Therapeutic, or Esseliians of the lake Mareotis ; a Jewish sect which had abated...community of goods, the love of celibacy, their zeal for martyrdom, and the warmth though not the purity of their faith, already offered a very lively image... | |
| Robert Taylor - 1829 - 466 pągines
...easy entrance to the new religion. It was, at first,* embraced by great numbers of the Therapeutae, or Essenians, of the lake Mareotis, a Jewish sect...ceremonies. The austere life of the Essenians, their feasts and excommunications, the community of goods, their love of celibacy, their zeal for martyrdom,... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1304 pągines
...embraced by great numbers of the Therapeuta;, or Essenians of the lake Mareotis, a Jewish sect which bad abated much of its reverence for the Mosaic ceremonies....community of goods, the love of celibacy, their zeal for martyrdom, and the warmth, though not the purity, of their faith, already offered a very lively... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1840 - 564 pągines
...an easy entrance to the new religion. It was at first embraced by great numbers of the Thérapeute, or Essenians of the lake Mareotis, a Jewish sect which had abated much of its reverence for the Mosaic cerel Lucķan in Alexandre, c. 25. Christianity, however, mu« have been very unequally diffused over... | |
| John Saunders - 1845 - 292 pągines
...of the Lake Mareotis, who embraced Christianity soon after its promulgation; and, observes Gibbon, " the austere life of the Essenians, their fasts and...community of goods, the love of celibacy, their zeal for martyrdom, and the warmth, though not the purity, of their faith, already offered a very lively... | |
| 1851 - 372 pągines
...religion. It was at first embraced by great numbers of the Theraputse, or Essenians of the lake Marcotis, a Jewish sect which had abated much of its reverence...community of goods, the love of celibacy, their zeal for martyrdom, and the warmth though not the purity of their faith, already offered a very lively image... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1852 - 666 pągines
...an easy entrance to the n«w religion. It was at first embriced by great numbers of the Theraputae, or Essenians, of the Lake Mareotis, a Jewish sect...the community of goods, the love of celibacy, their zeaf for martyrdom, and the warmth though not the purity of theii faith, already offered a very lively... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 466 pągines
...an easy entrance to the new religion. It was at first embraced by great numbers of the Therapeuta?, or Essenians, of the lake Mareotis, a Jewish sect...community of goods, the love of celibacy, their zeal for martyrdom, and the warmth though not the purity of their faith, already offered a very lively image... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1856 - 750 pągines
...gave an easy entrance to the new religion. It was at first embraced by great numbers of the Theraputae or Essenians, of the Lake Mareotis, a Jewish sect...ceremonies. The austere life of the Essenians, their fusts and excommunications, the community of goods, the love of celibacy, their zoa/ for martyrdom,... | |
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