(printed p. 244 — Book III)
One historian of the Hebrews, a book called Juchasin, has asserted this. Yet properly, according to the common formula of the Nazaraeans prescribed in Numbers 6:18-21, Deuteronomy 33:16, and Judges 13:5 and 7, they were not Nazaraeans. For many ceremonies were different, and in the books of Maccabees themselves the distinction between them is sufficiently shown, since the proper word of the Nazaraeans is placed in 1 Maccabees 3:49, while another appellation is assigned to the Essenes, namely that of Hasidaeans, as the previous chapter taught.
Yet by a certain likeness they can be called Nazaraeans, and indeed perpetual ones, because they observed certain similar rites and devoted themselves wholly to worship. And with respect even to their outward bodily clothing, that saying of Lamentations 4:7 suitably applies to them:
[margin: Strictly speaking, the Essenes were not Nazaraeans, though they may be called so by likeness. The printed citation appears to read 1 Maccabees 1:4, but the Nazarite passage is 1 Maccabees 3:49.]
(printed p. 245)
“Her Nazaraeans were whiter than snow and brighter than milk.”