It is remarkable that the Elchasaites, a Sabian or Baptist sect, inhabited the same district as the Essenes, (the eastern bank of the Dead Sea), and were confounded with them (Epiph., _Adv.

Haer._, xix.

1, 2, 4, xxx.

16, 17, liii.

1, 2; _Philosophumena_, IX.iii.15, 16, X.xx.