Note 355 — VIII. THE JEWISH SECTS
H. St. J. (Henry St. John) Thackeray translation
For these Essene fortune-tellers, see Lightfoot, Col. 89, note 1 (“We may conjecture that with the Essenes this acquisition was connected with magic or astrology. At all events it is not treated as a direct inspiration”), and the instance of Menahem, § (59), below.