pharisaic
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When the teaching of the sermon and the parables is compared with Jesus' self-assertion in his replies to pharisaic criticism and blasphemy, the difference is striking.
From The Life of Jesus of Nazareth by Rush Rhees
"Standing in the Lord," in remembrance and in use of their vital union with Him, they would be armed alike against the pharisaic and the antinomian heresy.
From Philippian Studies Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians by H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn) Moule
What if chickens gaggle, pharisaic goats piously turn up their eyes, and the dear little piggies grunt!
From Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature by Emma Goldman
Yet coincidently with this method of his choice he did not hesitate to reply to pharisaic opposition with unqualified self-assertion and exalted personal claim.
From The Life of Jesus of Nazareth by Rush Rhees
In the case of Paul, it was the pharisaic treatment of the law, and the deliverance was righteousness by faith.
From History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) by Neil Buchanan
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