The Antiquities of the Jews, 15.372

Flavius Josephus  translated by William Whiston

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372However, it is but fit to set down here the reasons wherefore Herod had these Essenes in such honor, and thought higher of them than their mortal nature required; nor will this account be unsuitable to the nature of this history, as it will show the opinion men had of these Essenes.

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