Translation for "ессейская" to english

Ессейская

• essenes
• essene

Translation examples

essenes

Незнакомый, он казался мне родным. Объединяла нас и тайна нашего зачатия. Захария, отец Иоанна, был ессейским священником, а мать — той самой Елисаветой, которую моя мать навещала, когда носила меня. Отличавшаяся крайним благочестием Елисавета была тонка и суха, как былинка.
I did not know him, yet he was kin to me. Much was alike in the way we were conceived. His father, Zacharias, had been an Essene priest; his mother was the same Elizabeth whom my mother had visited when pregnant with me, and Elizabeth was most devout and was as thin as a tall blade of grass. So, too, was Zacharias;