His self-assertions in response to pharisaic criticism. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Jesus of Nazareth] Reference
This was evident in his dealing with his pharisaic critics. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Jesus of Nazareth] Reference
John's baptism was equally independent of the pharisaic influence. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Jesus of Nazareth] Reference
It's a pharisaic fig-leaf for some really quite nasty queer-bashing. From Wordnik.com. [It's About That Old Fashioned Thing Called Shame] Reference
They carried the pharisaic demand for separateness to the extreme of asceticism. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Jesus of Nazareth] Reference
Why this pharisaic impatience with those just fallen DEAR ME - 289 from the nest?. From Wordnik.com. [An Autobiography]
This appears nowhere more strikingly than in his dealing with his pharisaic critics. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Jesus of Nazareth] Reference
Some of these governments use, in addition, a very pharisaic policy in foreign affairs. From Wordnik.com. [13TH ANNIVERSARY OF ATTACK ON MONCADA BARRACKS] Reference
Priesthood on one side in the most pharisaic manner imposing its superfluous authority upon all mortals. From Wordnik.com. [Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker] Reference
They chose for this mission priests and Levites of pharisaic leaning as most influential among the people. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Jesus of Nazareth] Reference
These Psalms of Solomon, as they are called, are pharisaic in point of view, yet they are not rabbinic in their ideas. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Jesus of Nazareth] Reference
That he was not following a pharisaic leading appears in the question put to him by the Pharisees, "Why, then, baptizest thou?". From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Jesus of Nazareth] Reference
We know how much Our Divine Savior detested this empty pharisaic show, He Who wished that all should adore the Father "in spirit and in truth.". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
One comes to expect pharisaic phrases from the Anglican hierarchy, but none can set the teeth on edge quite as effectively as “gracious restraint”. From Wordnik.com. [Words that have become repulsive: Gracious Restraint « Anglican Samizdat] Reference
Hebrew prophets, especially in that puritanical and pharisaic narrowness which, with characteristic simplicity, can see no good outside its own petty pale. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Mr.S. is said to have been a shrewd and sensible man, of strict morals and unbending integrity; but withal stern and inflexible in disposition, pharisaic, and a bigoted churchman. From Wordnik.com. [Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York] Reference
For the pharisaic scholars this was a favorite problem. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Jesus of Nazareth]
That's the way to inculcate a filthy pharisaic conceit into a child. From Wordnik.com. [Fantasia of the Unconscious] Reference
Saul had in his favor a conscience, however misguided, and a morality, however pharisaic. From Wordnik.com. [George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God] Reference
What if chickens gaggle, pharisaic goats piously turn up their eyes, and the dear little piggies grunt!. From Wordnik.com. [Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature] Reference
In the case of Paul, it was the pharisaic treatment of the law, and the deliverance was righteousness by faith. From Wordnik.com. [History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7)] Reference
In the man looking down on Marsham not a tinge of pharisaic condemnation mingled with the strange clearness of his judgment. From Wordnik.com. [The Testing of Diana Mallory] Reference
That he was not following a pharisaic leading appears in the question put to him by the Pharisees, “Why, then, baptizest thou?”. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Jesus of Nazareth]
If we feel for the elder son is it because of an unwanted suspicion that under our veneer of goodness lurks a similar pharisaic persona?. From Wordnik.com. [CathNews] Reference
"I know that I've been horrid to you all my life, critical and pharisaic. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Wheel A Novel] Reference
Call of four disciples, 118; popular enthusiasm and pharisaic opposition, 119-121; his withdrawals and injunctions of silence, 122 ff. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Jesus of Nazareth] Reference
Away with such pharisaic opinions!. From Wordnik.com. [Apology of the Augsburg Confession] Reference
For the pharisaic scholars this was. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Jesus of Nazareth] Reference
All these things are full of pharisaic vanity. From Wordnik.com. [Apology of the Augsburg Confession] Reference
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