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Updated: April 30, 2025
'Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. At the time of Christ's preaching, a Jewish sect, the Essenes, were endeavouring to put into practice the ideals of communism, but there is not a word in the Gospels to suggest that He ever held them up as an example to His followers.
'Communism was never preached by Christ, although it was practised under His very eyes by the Essenes. This absolute silence is equivalent to an implicit condemnation. On the Essenes see 'Historic Phases of Socialism, by Dr. Hogan, Irish Ecclesiastical Record, vol. xxv. p. 334. Nor was communism preached as part of Christ's doctrine as taught by the Apostles.
If you will obey what I tell you, and if you have the strength to stand, we can guide you into a secret place where the Essenes are hidden, who for my sake will take care of you until you are able to return to the Romans. If you do not escape I fear that the Jews will crucify you." "By Bacchus, so do I," said the whisper beneath, "and that will be worse than being beaten by Caleb.
In the days I am telling, pride lifted me above myself, and I went about asking who I was, Moses, Elijah, Jeremiah or the Messiah promised to the Jews. A madman! A madman, or possessed by some evil spirit, Paul cried out, and rising to his feet he rushed out of the cenoby, but nobody rose to detain him; some of the Essenes raised their heads, and a moment after the interruption was forgotten.
I shall try to eat after I have slept a little, and having made his head comfortable with his sheepskin, Jesus watched him doze away. He could not bring the Essenes as testimony, nor could they if they came vouch for the whole truth of his story. Hast slept well, Paul, and hath sleep refreshed thee and given thee strength to pursue thy journey?
"For a time, perhaps, until I find a tenant. I am not accustomed to towns, and at present they seem to stifle me." "Where were you brought up, sir?" "Among the Essenes by Jericho. But I am not an Essene their creed disgusted me; I belong to that of my fathers." "There are worse men," replied Benoni.
The prophets and psalmists had already shown some beginnings of this asceticism or inverted worldliness. The Essenes and the early Christians made an explicit reversal of ancient Jewish conceptions on this point the corner-stone of their morality. True, the old positivism remained in the background. Tribulation was to be short-lived.
How delightful it was for me to find one like thee so eager to understand the life of the Essenes: so eager to join us. Such delight I shall not find again. We spoke last night of our journey from Nazareth to Jerusalem and across the Jordan. Thou wouldst not follow thy father's trade, but would lead flocks from the hills, and becamest in time the best shepherd, it is said, ever known in the hills.
Josephus distinguishes here four sects, the Essenes, the Pharisees, the Sadducees, and the Zealots, but his account is mainly confined to the first. He describes in some detail their practices, beliefs, and organizations. Indeed, this passage and the account in Philo are our chief Jewish authorities for the tenets of the Essenes.
We'll go to see Cæsar's lambs, they cried, as he was being led away. There will be no lambs by Cæsar this spring, Jesus answered. He'll run with the ewes and that's about all; for a ram is not fit for service till he is two years old. Whereupon the distraction of Jesus' grief being removed from the cenoby, the Essenes fell to talking again of the great schism and what came of it.
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