pharisaic
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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
For the pharisaic scholars this was a favorite problem.
From The Life of Jesus of Nazareth by Rush Rhees
Just in proportion as He offended the pharisaic scribes, so did He inspire with new hope the unhappy classes who were taught to consider themselves castaway.
From The Gospel According to St. Mark by G. A. Chadwick
"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
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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