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Show Ll B.l . 50 · . oftheEjfeneJ. d . b . d leave from AlexAn er· SanhaUat's ~eans ~e .0 tatne on Mount Garb~ IJofepb. Antiq. the Grea\:, to butld a Temple ( 1.) u_p S aria whilib .u· c/1,.8. zit11 one of the higheft Mountatns tn am h' "th => n. d 1 fled toget er WI · ther many other A pouat~ ~ws . ' . and now the ~Janaffis being ma~e thetr Htgh· Prteft ~hom and the Sell: of the SAmarttanes ( between w all thofe jewt there was fuch hatred ) began~ nod . And of .,. . d rs were matntatne • tore-menttone erro f Sam.aria fpeaketh this Hill it is, that the womafu. o d in this Moun .. 1ohn 4· zg, Our Fath rs wor tppe taiBn, &c. . g the Dogm~tta of the PharifeeJ, ~ith y compartn ceive a mantfeft thefe of the s ttdduces, we .may b~th thefe joy ned oppofition between them ' yet againft chrift, Marft 1'2. fi: fi: This herefie, though it were the great.e ~m.ong the Jews yet was it imbraced and matntatned by ' . h . ,fl. thernfelves : ( m ) 1oannel m_GorioniJel, fome of the Htg ~dPdrte;,s fc • e his fons Ariftobulus ,~P·29• H)rcanus was a Sa ucee, C? wer. ' h • nE~tfeb.hift.l. nd Alexander~ ( n) and Itkewtfe .Ananus t e youn 2.t. 23· Ex. a fc h M .r; Chair was not amongit them ex~ Jo(epb. A.nttq. ger ; o t at O;es fi ti~. ,o, cap. :B' empted from error, no nor here te. , _ a 1ofe~h.ie bello1udaic. J:b .2, c·u. p. 786., C H A P. X, I I.- . of thq Ejfenes. ~He Etymologies of the names Eff~!, Or Effini).~. J..:. Ejfenes' are divers ' that 'Yht_ch I prefer, ts from the s1rlaeft NoN Afa ' figntfytng ~~~.,.efJh." to h~ or cure Difeafes. ( a ) Hence are t e men fo so ften terme d , , ' and the women . .3-te.st'-"1"'cu. • For amongfi: them, ,~•eJ<"''v1"J'Is, that ts' PhyjicJa~hough ·~ L I B. I. · oj the-EffineJ~ ~ 51 th ugh they gave themfelves chiefly to the fiudy of the Bible~ yet withal they fiadied Phyftck. Of thefe EJ!enes there were two for'ts, fome Theo& riel<!~ giving themfelves wholly to [peculation; others Prallick...s, laborious and painful in the daily exercife of thofe hdndy·craftt, in which they were moft skilful. Of the latter, Philo treateth in his book enti· tuled, ~uod omniJ vir probus : Of the former, in the book following, entit1aled, De vita contemplaliva. Their Dogmata, -their Ordinance, or CtJnjlitHtion.r, did fymbolize in many things with Ptthagora.r his, where they do agree: Therefore my purpofe is, firft to name PJthagoras his ; and then .to proceed on with the Ef{enes. They follow thus. The( b )PJthllgoreAnJ profeffid a-communion of goods: b Au 1 Gell.I. 1 So the E.ffines. (c) they had one C8mmon purft oriflock, ~~ro. It. L11 ert none richer, none poorer than other ; out of thii KPJ ,~Rg. ' · , COmmon treafury ' every One fupplyed his OWO om~. Td. ~lr ~ants without leave, and adminifl:red to the neceffi· ~j:r;;:/;60 1g. ·ues of others :only they might not relieve any of cap.:z.. their kindred without leave from their Overfeers. They did not buy or fell among themfelves, but each ·fupplyed the others want, by a ·kind of comml:ttative bartring : yea, liberty was granted to take orie from another what they wanted, without exchange. They performed Offices of fervice mutually one to another ; for mafi:erlliip and fervice .cannot fiand with communion of goods : and fervants are com- !Donly injurio~s to th~ fiate of their Mafiers1 accord- tl ~:1-;·o tng to that faytng of R. GamAliel, (d) He that multi. 0"1:1D . pi:Jethfervants, multiplieth thieves. When they travel- ~~~en;2~a .. le9, befides w~a~ons for defence,. they took nothing dim.M~rbe~ge. 1 With-them, for tn whatfo.eHv er Ctty or Village they ~e!, hPu'<!. nuot • ,ap. r. z ·came |