The Essenes – Philo (Quod Omnis Probus Liber Sit )

Philo of Alexandria (20 BC – 50 AD), on the Essenes
Quod Omnis Probus Liber Sit (Every Good Man is Free)
12.75-87
XII. (75) Moreover Palestine and Syria too are not barren of exemplary wisdom and virtue, which countries no slight portion of that most populous nation of the Jews inhabits. There is a portion of those [...]