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INDEX.

A

Abel's offering, 103

Alford, Dean, on Mark, 172

Ammon on Celibacy, 52

"Ancient Christianity," 55, 123, 125

"Antiquities of the Jews," 4, 5, 16, 100, 116, 129, 164

"Apostolic Constitutions," 140, 150

"Arnobius adversus Gentes," 147, 198

Arnold on Grave of Jesus, 209

B

Baal worship, 138

Babism in Persia, 71

Banus, ascetic Essene, 118

Baptism, 15

Barrows, Dr., 25, 174

C

Celibacy of Essenes, 36, 49

—of Jesus, 46

—of Paul, 52

Celibacy of Christian approval, 54

—of Shakers, 69

Chicago slaughter-houses, 79

Chrishna's Incarnation, 154

Christians (early), their feasts, 32

—their celibacy, 54

—  „   excommunications, 65

—related to Essenes, 134

—Pliny on, 134

—Eastward position, 140

—oath taken by, 148

—their Agape, 158

Church of Essenes, 63

—of Christ, 64

Clarke, Dr. Adam, 104, 174

Clement of Alexandria, 55, 136

Communism, 9, 14

Crucifixion of Jesus, 187, 190

—voluntary, 190 Cyprian, St., 53

D

Disciples’ poverty, 10, 29

—Messiahship belief, 180

Divinity of Jesus, 23

Dixon, Hepworth, 70

Donatists, 75

p. 212

E

Easter and sun-worship, 143

Egypt and Therapeuts, 5, 7

—refuge from Palestine, 38

Election, doctrine of, 38, 112

Ellicott, Bishop, 173, 176, 177

Essenes, numbers, &c., 1, 2, 5

—two sects of, 6

—brotherhood, 9, 35

—baptism, 14, 15, 32

—secret society, 19

—obedience to authority, 20

—against war and trade, 28

—aversion to oaths, 31

—white raiment, 32

—no family ties, 33

—celibacy, 36

—high culture, 39

—solitary life, 59

—common dwelling, 61

—freemasonry, 62

—excommunications, 63

—reformers, not ritualists, 76

—prayers, 114

—their antiquity, 116

—their doctrines, 116

—Pliny on, 119

—Gibbon on, 122

—Taylor on, 123

—marriage of, 125

—condemned slavery, 126

—use of oil, 130

—observance of Sabbath, 131

—Eastward position, 140

—oath of secrecy, 147

—not named in Gospels, 150

Essenes’ view of the Messiah, 166

Eunuchs, 47

Eusebius’ forgery of Josephus, 4

—on Origen, 47

—view of Essenes, 157, 162

Excommunication, 63, 65

F

Family ties of Essenes, 33

—of Jesus, 34, 46

Farrar, Archdeacon, 25, 36, 40, 46, 185

Feasts of Therapeuts, 67, 69

—of early Christians, 158

—of Passover, 84, 102

Forgery in Josephus, 4

Freemason Essenes, 62

Froude on Crucifixion, 187

G

Gibbon on Joseph, 4

—Essenes, 122

—Jewish idolatry, 145

Gibeonites hanged, 93

Ginsburg, Dr., 49, 119, 125

Gospels, harmony of, 25

—contradictions, 27, 38, 40, 92

—silence about Essenes, 150

—only source of Christ's history, 195

Gymnosophists, 5

H

Hands mutilated, 57

Hanson, Sir R. D., 25

p. 213

Haweis, Rev. H. R., 42, 44, 45

Heaven of Christians, 13, 14

Hermits in Egypt, 7

Hillel, Jewish teacher, 178

Hillern on self-mutilation, 56

Hippolytus on Essenes, 61

Hue, M., on Tartary, 59

Huxley on Crucifixion, 190

I

Idolatry of Jews, 88, 138, 145

—of Solomon, 137

—none after Exile, 140

Incarnations, pretended, 166

Incense, why used, 145

Interpretation of Scripture, 16, 58, 92, 169

J

Jacob, 82, 103, 112

Jephthah's sacrifice, 90

Jeremiah, 99, 139

Jesus Christ an Essene, 1

—his teaching, 8, 10, 13, 18, 58

—submission to rulers, 20

—his divinity, 23, 24

—his humility, 29

—his thanksgiving, 31

—his mother, 33

—trained among Essenes, 39

—behaviour to women, 49

—discouraged sacrifices, 101

—prayerfulness, 114

—Sabbath opinion, 131

Jesus Christ a reformer, 132

—his titles, 155

—Messiahship, 162, 180, 182

—unaccepted by relatives, 182

—his crucifixion, 185, 186, 187, 190, 194

—his resurrection, 186, 196

—his ascension, 206

John the Baptist, 4, 15, 66,119,164

Joseph the Carpenter, 34, 38

Josephus, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 14, 36, 60, 61, 70, 76, 100, 103, 114, 116, 119, 125, 131, 135, 164, 189

Jowett on Christ's teaching, 59

Judas the Galilean, 129, 165

K

Keim on resurrection, 194

—ascension, 207

Kingsley, Chas., 22, 142

Kiss of Charity, 55

L

Lardner on Josephus, 4

Latimer on martyrs, 75

Lecky on continence, 52

Lessing on Christianity, 58

Liebig on death, 198

"Life of Christ," 25, 26, 36, 40, 185

Lilies of Canticles, 54

Lot, use of, 104, 105, 106

—by Wesley, 107, 108

p. 214

Mareotis Lake and Essenes, 7

Marriage with Essenes, 125

Martyrdom of Essenes, 70

—Mormons, 71

—Babists, 7273

—early Christians, 73

—Mahometans, 74

—Anabaptists, 75

Mary Magdalene, 50, 189, 195

Mary of Bethany, 50

McEwen on types, 38

Michaelis, 27, 57, 178

Milman on baptism, 15

—worship, 65

—the Messiah, 168

—Essenes, 117, 181

—slavery, 129

Monasticism, 59

Monotheism of Jews, 144

Moravians, 108109

Mosaic law, 17, 51, 77, 133

Moses and war horrors, 86

Mosheim, 6, 65

Mutilation of person, 47, 55

N

Newman, Cardinal, 22, 25

Numbering, Sin of, 97

Numbers untrustworthy, 78

O

Oath of secrecy, 47, 147, 148

Oil used, 130, 131, 156

Origen, 43, 45, 47, 74, 92

P

Parables, 12, 18, 30

Pattison on evidences, 42

Paul on sacrifice, 97

—election, 113

—prayer, 114

—slaves, 126

—the Sabbath, 133

—seeing Jesus, 202, 203

Pearson on the Divinity, 24

Pentecost, 32

Peter on the Messiah, 180, 183

Pharisees, 18, 116

Philo, 1, 2, 9, 20, 28, 29, 31, 36, 59, 61, 65, 67, 68, 114, 119, 127, 135, 155, 158

"Picture of Jesus," 38, 42, 186

Pigeons for sacrifices, 102

Pliny on Essenes, 6, 119

—Christians, 134

Poverty and wealth, 11, 12, 29

Prayer of Essenes, 114

—towards Jerusalem, 143

Pressensé on Josephus, 3

—Essenes, 6, 65

—Martyrs, 74

Punishments, eternal, 13

Pythagoreans, 1, 6, 117

Q

Quincey, de, 115, 123, 151

R

Ra, sun-god, 136, 139

Renan, 3, 27, 72

Rizpah, 93

p. 215

S

Sabbath of Essenes and Jesus, 131, 132

Sacrifices—Essene's View, 76, 100

—Dean Stanley on, 78

—of human beings, 85, 90,96

—treated as types, 81, 97

—deprecated by prophets, 99

—fewer after Exile, 102

Sadducees, 116, 152

Samson used by God, 83

Saul's rash vow, 95

Scripture interpretation, 16, 56, 58, 92, 169

Scripture, alterations of, 174, 175

Separation of sexes, 65

Septuagint, 170, 174

Sermon on the Mount, 57, 178

Shakers, 69

Skoptzi, a Russian Sect, 48

Slavery, 126, 128, 129

Solomon's idolatry, 137

Southcott, Joanna, 166

Stanley, Dean, 16, 24, 78, 94

Strauss on Essenes, 6, 152, 159

Sun-worship, 136, 137, 141

Surenhusius on Bible, 174

T

Talmud, 17

Taylor on Essenes, 123, 126, 130, 131, 150

Temple, Dr., on Divinity, 23

Temptations of Jesus, 40, 44

Tertullian, 140, 158

Therapeuts, 2, 5, 6, 29, 31, 59, 65, 67, 114, 135, 140, 158

Types in Old Testament, 82

V

Vickers’ "Real Jesus," 31, 48

Virginity honoured, 51, 53

"Voice from Ganges," 29, 151, 189

Voysey, Rev. C., 22

W

Waters of Purification, 15

Wesley, John, 16, 107

White raiment, 32

Women-friends of Jesus, 49, 50

Y

Young's "Christ of History," 21