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pharisees


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  Pharisees 
  separatists  (Heb.  persahin  from  parash,  "to  separate").  They 
  were  probably  the  successors  of  the  Assideans  (i.e.,  the 
  "pious"),  a  party  that  originated  in  the  time  of  Antiochus 
  Epiphanes  in  revolt  against  his  heathenizing  policy.  The  first 
  mention  of  them  is  in  a  description  by  Josephus  of  the  three 
  sects  or  schools  into  which  the  Jews  were  divided  (B.C.  145). 
  The  other  two  sects  were  the  Essenes  and  the  Sadducees.  In  the 
  time  of  our  Lord  they  were  the  popular  party  (John  7:48).  They 
  were  extremely  accurate  and  minute  in  all  matters  appertaining 
  to  the  law  of  Moses  (Matt.  9:14;  23:15;  Luke  11:39;  18:12). 
  Paul,  when  brought  before  the  council  of  Jerusalem,  professed 
  himself  a  Pharisee  (Acts  23:6-8;  26:4,  5). 
 
  There  was  much  that  was  sound  in  their  creed,  yet  their  system 
  of  religion  was  a  form  and  nothing  more  Theirs  was  a  very  lax 
  morality  (Matt.  5:20;  15:4,  8;  23:3,  14,  23,  25;  John  8:7).  On 
  the  first  notice  of  them  in  the  New  Testament  (Matt.  3:7),  they 
  are  ranked  by  our  Lord  with  the  Sadducees  as  a  "generation  of 
  vipers."  They  were  noted  for  their  self-righteousness  and  their 
  pride  (Matt.  9:11;  Luke  7:39;  18:11,  12).  They  were  frequently 
  rebuked  by  our  Lord  (Matt.  12:39;  16:1-4). 
 
  From  the  very  beginning  of  his  ministry  the  Pharisees  showed 
  themselves  bitter  and  persistent  enemies  of  our  Lord.  They  could 
  not  bear  his  doctrines,  and  they  sought  by  every  means  to 
  destroy  his  influence  among  the  people. 
 
 
  From  Hitchcock's  Bible  Names  Dictionary  (late  1800's)  [hitchcock]: 
 
  Pharisees,  set  apart 
 




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