pharisee

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When about leaving it, a pharisee through pure curiosity invited him to dinner.

From Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels by Holbach, Paul Henry Thiry Baron d'

He, too, had taken the part of the lowly and oppressed, and against all the established power of priest and pharisee.

From The Iron Heel by London, Jack

More than any other fetish it has ruined our sense of political values by glorifying the pharisee with his vain cruelty to individuals and his unfounded approval of himself.

From A Preface to Politics by Lippmann, Walter

“What is a pharisee and a publican?” asked Caleb.

From Caleb in the Country by Abbott, Jacob

Above all, do not act like the two men in the parable: 'Two men went into the temple to pray, the one was a publican, the other a pharisee.

From The Silver Cross or The Carpenter of Nazareth by Sue, Eugène