pharisaic
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They carried the pharisaic demand for separateness to the extreme of asceticism.
From The Life of Jesus of Nazareth by Rush Rhees
For the pharisaic scholars this was a favorite problem.
From The Life of Jesus of Nazareth by Rush Rhees
That he was not following a pharisaic leading appears in the question put to him by the Pharisees, "Why, then, baptizest thou?"
From The Life of Jesus of Nazareth by Rush Rhees
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
The historian, however, must put aside these rather pharisaic prejudices, and give Seneca the position as a moral teacher which his writings have won in ages not less earnest than ours.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill
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