Egyptian priests
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the priests · priests · priests of Hephaestus · priests of Hephaestus at Memphis · the Egyptian priests · the Egyptians · the priest
in the texts
The Histories
The Egyptian priesthood, Herodotus's principal informants on Egyptian antiquity and religion, and the officiants whose own strict purity rules and sacrificial duties he describes.
The priests wear a single linen garment and sandals of papyrus:
This, too, that the priests told me about Egypt, is a strong proof:
This is the story which I heard from the priests of Hephaestus ' temple at Memphis;
Orations
Egyptian priestly class described as sharing the Magi's wisdom in matters divine.
the Egyptians, the priests, who had the same science as the Magi, caring for the gods and knowing all things, where and how they stand;
Adversus Marcionem
The Levitical priests, forbidden by law from defiling themselves even at a parent's burial, cited as precedent for Christ's saying about burial.
both that in Leviticus, forbidding the priests to be present even at the last rites of parents ("Over every dead soul," it says, "the priest shall not enter, and over his own father he shall not be defiled"), and that of consecration in Numbers;