[421:3] Comp. Rom. xii. 1.
[421:4] Comp. I. Cor. xiv. 1, 39.
[421:5] The above comparisons have been taken from Ginsburg's "Essenes," to which the reader is referred for a more lengthy observation on the subject.
[421:6] Ginsburg's Essenes, p. 24.
[421:7] "We hear very little of them after A. D. 40; and there can hardly be any doubt that, owing to the great similarity existing between their precepts and practices and those of primitive Christians, the Essenes as a body must have embraced Christianity." (Dr. Ginsburg, p. 27.)
[422:1] This will be alluded to in another chapter.
[422:2] It was believed by some that the order of Essenes was instituted by Elias, and some writers asserted that there was a regular succession of hermits upon Mount Carmel from the time of the prophets to that of Christ, and that the hermits embraced Christianity at an early period. (See Ginsburgh's Essenes, and Hardy's Eastern Monachism, p. 358.)
[422:3] King's Gnostics and their Remains, p. 1.
[422:4] Ibid. p. 6.
[422:5] King's Gnostics, p. 23.