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THE FIFTH BOOK OF MACCABEES:
CONTAINING A RECORD OF EVENTS FROM THE TRANSLATION OF THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES INTO GREEK UNDER PTOLEMY PHILADELPHUS, (B.C. 277,) TO THE DEATH OF HEROD’s TWO SONS, IN THE FIFTH OR SIXTH YEAR BEFORE CHRIST.
CHAPTER XXVa
B.C. 108
An account of the Jewish sects at this time.
At that time there were three sects among the Jews. One, of the Pharisees, that is, “the separated,” or religious; whose rule it was, to maintain whatever was contained in the law, according to the expositions of their forefathers. The second, that of the Sadducees; and these are followers of a certain man of the doctors, by name Sadoc; whose rule it was, to maintain according to the things found in the text of the law, and of which there is demonstration in the Scripture itself; but not that which is not extant in the text, nor is proved from it. The third sect was that of the Hasdanimb, or those who studied the virtues: but the author of this bookc did not make mention of their rule, nor do we know it except in so far as it is discovered by their name: for they applied themselves to such practices as came near to the more eminent virtues; namely, to select from those two other rules whatever was most safe in belief, most sure and guarded.
Hyrcanus at first was one of the Pharisees; afterwards he went over to the Sadducees; because that one of the Pharisees had said to him it is not lawful for you to be high priest, because your mother was a captive before she bare you, in the days of Antiochus: but it becometh not that the son of a captive should be high priest. And this conversation took place in the presence of the chief men of the Pharisees; which was the cause of his going over to the rule of the Sadducees. Now the Sadducees were at enmity with 10 the Pharisees; wherefore they kept up differences betwixt one another, and they prevailed on him so far, as to slay great numbers of the Pharisees. And the trouble came to such a height, that wars and many evils continued among them for a great length of time.
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