[2169] Josephus, Antiq., XIII, 5, 9.

[2170] Cook, Fathers of Jesus, II, 30, 38.

[2171] Hastings, Dict. Bib., Devel. of Doct. in Apoc. Period; Supp. Vol. 292, a.

[2172] Lucius, Essenismus, 54, 59, 68.

[2173] Ibid., 52.

[2174] Jewish Encyc., V, s. v. "Essenes."

[2175] Cook, Fathers of Jesus, II, 48; Lucius, Essenismus, 131; Graetz, Gesch. der Juden, III, 92 ff.

[2176] Harnack, Pseudoclement. Briefe de Virg., 3.

[2177] Hatch, Griechenthum und Christenthum, 121.

[2178] Lea, Sacer. Celib., 29.