Meanings
- uncountableSynonym of Essenism.
Love of truth was inculcated by Essaism, as by Parsism and Buddhism, and was promised by an oath.
1880, Ernst von Bunsen, The Angel-messiah of Buddhists, Essenes, and Christians, page 1292 more examples
In the Epistle to the Colossians, which both date and contents connect with the encyclical Epistle, he denounces a Judaistic amalgamation of Christianity with Essaism.
1852, Heinrich Wilhelm Josias Thiersch, The history of the Christian Church, page 139How difficult this investigation, how doubtful its results, may be understood when we mention that Hilgenfeld says, Jüdische Apocalyptik, p. 245: "Essaism is the most enigmatical phenomenon of later Judaism ; " and Lucius (der Essenismus, p. 63) makes a remark precisely similar.
1891, John Ebenezer Honeyman Thomson, Books which Influenced Our Lord and His ApostlesSynonyms: Essenism
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nounSynonym of Essenism.
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