 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 498 sider
...to their relatives, relinquished business and society, and, quitting the cities, dwelt in fields and gardens. They had also, he informs us, sacred edifices...virgins among them, who, for the sake of philosophy, had retrained from marriage. In this narrative, Philo seems to describe certain Jews who had embraced Christianity,... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1915 - 484 sider
...to their relatives, relinquished business and society, and, quitting the cities, dwelt in fields and gardens. They had also, he informs us, sacred edifices...the sake of philosophy, had refrained from marriage. In this narrative, Philo seems to describe certain Jews who had embraced Christianity, and yet retained... | |
 | Sozomen, Saint Photius I (Patriarch of Constantinople) - 1855 - 588 sider
...John the Baptist were the authors, as some say, of this sublime philosophy. Philo the Pythagorean 1 relates, that in his time the most virtuous of the...the sake of philosophy, had refrained from marriage. In this narrative, Philo seems to describe2 certain Jews who had embraced Christianity, and yet retained... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 464 sider
...to their relatives, relinquished business and society, and, quitting the cities, dwelt in fields and gardens. They had also, he informs us, sacred edifices...the sake of philosophy, had refrained from marriage. In this narrative, Philo seems to describe certain Jews who had embraced Christianity, and yet retained... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 2007 - 489 sider
...dwelt apart and alone, occupied in celebrating the holy mysteries, and in worshiping God sedulously with psalms and hymns. They never tasted food before...hyssop, and their drink, water ; and that there were women among them who had lived as virgins to old age, who, for the love of philosophy, and from their... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 2007 - 489 sider
...dwelt apart and alone, occupied in celebrating the holy mysteries, and in worshiping God sedulously with psalms and hymns. They never tasted food before...the ground and abstained from wine and the flesh of aalmals ; that their food was bread, salt, and hyssop, and their drink, water ; and that there were... | |
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... gardens. They had also, he informs us, sacred edifices which were called monasteries, in which they dwelt apart and alone, occupied in celebrating the holy mysteries, and in worshipping God with psalms and hymns. They never tasted food before sunset,... 