ASSEVERATION

ASSEVERATION,an earnest Affirmation, or Avouching. See AFFIRMATION, &c.

Assideans, Assideans,in Antiquity, a Sect among the Jews; thus called from the Hebrew, חסידים, chasidim, meaning merciful, righteous—The Assideans are recorded as holding Works of Supererogation necessary.—They were the Fathers and Predecessors of the Pharisees; and from them likewise arose the Essenes. See PHARISEE and ESSENE.



The Jesuit Serrarius and Drusius have written against each other upon the Subject of the Assideans, on occasion of a Passage in Josephus Ben Gorion; the first maintaining, that by the Name Assideans he means Essenes, and the latter Pharisees.

ASSEVERATION