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Essene  n.  (pl. essenes)  One of a sect among the Jews in the time of our Savior, remarkable for their strictness and abstinence.





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... origin of Christianity from Hellenism, or even from the Roman Greek culture, are there also rightly, briefly and tersely rejected. Also the hypotheses, which either entirely eliminate the person of Jesus or make him an Essene, or subordinate him to the person of Paul, may be regarded as definitively settled. Those who think they can ascertain the origin of Christian religion from the origin of Christian Theology will, indeed, always ...
— History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) • Adolph Harnack


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