pharisee

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Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup and of the platter, that the outside thereof may become clean also.

HIS LAST WEEKWILLIAM E. BARTON

I never see such a flow of language as that bit where he called old Gommy a superannuated Pharisee.

THE CHEQUERSJAMES RUNCIMAN

Thus it came to pass that many of these had entered the kingdom, while the self-complacent Pharisee still remained without.

Or was he only a subconscious Pharisee, self-deceived and complacent?

Evidence of the popular dislike of the conservative Pharisee abounds.

THE CRADLE OF THE CHRISTOCTAVIUS BROOKS FROTHINGHAM

Magdalene, who loved much, could see deeper than jesting Pilate, deeper than the self-righteous Pharisee.

I was at that time,” he later complained, “nothing but an insufferably vain and narrow-minded Pharisee.

Saul of Tarsus was a devoted student and observer of the law, a strict Pharisee.

JESUS THE CHRISTJAMES EDWARD TALMAGE

They made great courtesy between them who should examine me; at last, the rankest Pharisee of them all took upon him to do it.

He's coming round; he's not such a pig-headed old Pharisee as I thought.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985