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These men are despisers of riches, and so very communicative as raises
our admiration. Nor is there any one to be found among them who hath more
than another; for it is a law among them, that those who come to them must
let what they have be common to the whole order, - insomuch that among
them all there is no appearance of poverty, or excess of riches, but every
one's possessions are intermingled with every other's possessions; and
so there is, as it were, one patrimony among all the brethren. They think
that oil is a defilement; and if any one of them be anointed without his
own approbation, it is wiped off his body; for they think to be sweaty
is a good thing, as they do also to be clothed in white garments. They
also have stewards appointed to take care of their common affairs, who
every one of them have no separate business for any, but what is for the
uses of them all.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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