Paul Apostle of the Heart Set Free by F. F. Bruce

Author:F. F. Bruce [Bruce, F. F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion, Biblical Studies, Biblical Biography, New Testament, Christianity, History
ISBN: 9780802847782
Amazon: 0802847781
Barnesnoble: 0802847781
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: 2000-03-02T22:00:00+00:00

No [one shall approach] the well-spring of life

or drink the waters of holiness

with the everlasting trees

or bear fruit with [the planting] of heaven

who seeing has not discerned

and considering has not believed

in the fountain of life.22

But Josephus’s tendency to conform Jewish beliefs and practices to those rendered respectable by Greek philosophy counsels caution once more in taking his information au pied de la lettre. Hippolytus, whose account of the Essenes in the ninth book of his Philosophoumena largely follows Josephus but seems to be indebted to a further source, says that in addition to the immortality of the soul they believed in the resurrection of the body: the soul, he says, is regarded by the Essenes as imperishable, resting after death in an airy and well-lighted place, until it is rejoined by the resurrected body on the day of judgment.23 Our ignorance of Hippolytus’s additional source prevents us from adequately evaluating his information where it contradicts that of Josephus, but a certain suspension of judgment is plainly the wise course to adopt.

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