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Two points need to be made here. (a) It is quite clear from the content of the group’s devotional literature that this piety and purity were not regarded as ‘earning’ membership, or salvation. They merely expressed it.197 (b) The purity regulations of the group give several indications that they regarded themselves as in some senses analogous to, or on a par with, priests in the Temple.
