# The Essenes: Their history and doctrines

Author: Ginsburg, Christian D. (Christian David), 1831-1914

Genre: Category: History - Other

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69170

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## Summary

impurity, are to be clad in white garments (4 Esdras ii. 39–45; Enoch lxi. 18; Rev. iii. 4; vi. 11; vii. 9, 14; xix. 8); soiled garments are regarded as emblematic of impurity (Zech. iii. 3, &c.) Inseparably connected therewith are the frequent purifications or washings enjoined on the priests before entering into the presence of God to perform religious acts (Levit. xvi. 4; 2 Chron. xxx. 19), and on the people generally after coming in contact with anything impure (Levit. xi. 25, 40; xv. 5–24). The white garments and the frequent purifications of the Essenes, who strove to live after the highest degree of Levitical purity, were therefore in perfect harmony with exaggerated Judaism. (8) A...

## Chapters

- [book xviii., chap, i., § 2 and 5.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-essenes-their-history-and-doctrines-69170/chapters/2/index.md)
- [xvi. 4), and the saints in heaven, washed and cleansed from all](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-essenes-their-history-and-doctrines-69170/chapters/1/index.md)