Note 40 — THE ESSENES.
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This love for the brotherhood, which the Essenes possessed to so extraordinary a degree, was also urged by the Evangelists and Apostles on the early Christians (comp. John xiv. 17 ; Rom. xiii. 8 ; 1 Tim. iv. 9 ; 1 Peter i. 28; xi. 17; 1 John iii. 23 ; iv. 7, 11 ; v. 2 ). ↑