[354]. Or “superior,” “special.”
[355]. 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.
[356]. Meaning a little uncertain.
[357]. i. e. “co-operates.”
[358]. Gr. “Hades.”
[359]. Gr. “we.”
[361]. ὁ λόγος. Whiston, “follow the guidance of reason”; but ὁ λ. must, it seems, have the same meaning as in the corresponding opening sentences in the paragraphs on Sadducees and Essenes, (?) “doctrine” or “tenets.”
[362]. Text doubtful.
[363]. Another reading (κρᾶσιν for κρίσιν), “that there should be a blend between....”