The Pharisees are affectionate to each other, and cultivate harmonious relations with the community. The Sadducees, even to one another, are rather boorish in their behaviour, and in their intercourse with their fellows are as harsh as with aliens. Such is what I have to say on the Jewish philosophical schools.—_B.J._ II. 8. 2-14 (119-166). Footnote 329: Or “solemnity” or “sanctity.” Footnote 330: Or “of the affairs of the community.” Footnote 331: Text doubtful. Footnote 332: Lit. “with fear.” Footnote 333: Lit. “towards the deity.” Footnote 334: Most MSS “his breakfast.” Footnote 335: Other MSS “sustenance.” Footnote 336: Or “when they ask an alms.” Footnote 337: Or “display”; lit. “just stewards” or “dispensers.” Footnote 338: Or “leaders in.” Footnote 339: MSS “the person who.” Footnote 340: Or “roots that act as charms.” Footnote 341: _i. e._ probably, charms or amulets. Footnote 342: On this paragraph see Lightfoot, _Colossians_, 8 p. 89 f. note. Lightfoot, connecting the passage with _Ant._ VIII. 2. 5, § (6) above, regards the “writings” as Solomonian books and the Essenes as primarily dealers in charms, rather than physicians. Footnote 343: The inconsistency of this with the attitude of the sect towards swearing as recorded in a previous paragraph is remarkable. Footnote 344: Lit. “the Divinity.” Footnote 345: Cf. Rom. xiii. 1. Footnote 346: Or “detected in.” Footnote 347: Usual meaning “a hoe”; Lightfoot tr. “spade.” Footnote 348: See p. 152 above. Footnote 349: _i. e._ the sun-god, to whom they pray (see above and cf. Lightfoot, _Col._, p. 85 note 2). Footnote 350: As Lightfoot (_Col._ 363, note) points out, the passage must be read in connexion with the account of the admission to the order (above). A comparison shows that the two year period there mentioned comprises “the period spent in the second and third grades, each extending over a year. After passing through these three stages in three successive years, he enters upon the fourth and highest grade, thus becoming a perfect member.” Footnote 351: Or, perhaps, “the simplicity of their mode of life and their regular habits.” Footnote 352: φυσικός here apparently used of the occult laws of nature (v. Liddell-Scott Lex.). Footnote 353: Lit. “the Sisyphuses,” etc. Footnote 354: Or “superior,” “special.” Footnote 355: For these Essene fortune-tellers, see Lightfoot, _Col._ 89, note 1 (“We may conjecture that with the Essenes this acquisition was connected with magic or astrology. At all events it is not treated as a direct inspiration”), and the instance of Menahem, § (59), below. Footnote 356: Meaning a little uncertain. Footnote 357: _i. e._ “co-operates.” Footnote 358: Gr. “Hades.” (55) Another Account of the Three Sects—and a Fourth