Pharisee

//ˈfɛɹɪsiː//

"Pharisee" in a Sentence (9 examples)

"We use the word Pharisee for sanctimonious types, or for those who commit the sin of adding to scripture." "Wow; I've always called those types Christians."

Apart from the Karaites, every Jew is a Pharisee.

Zamenhof was a Pharisee.

Zamenhof held with the ideas of the Pharisee sage Hillel.

The common Judean was typically a Pharisee, while the elite gravitated towards the Sadducees.

Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

I cannot tell. They [Jews]are always doing it. The Pharisees, for instance, say that there are angels, and the Sadducees declare that angels do not exist.

He was, and is yet most likely, the wearisomest self-righteous Pharisee that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses to his neighbours.

The spider fattens himself on flies, and the Pharisee has his reward. Foolish persons are easily entrapped by the loud professions of pretenders, and even the more judicious cannot always escape.

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