Pharisee : one of the two great Jewish religious parties that arose within the synagogue. The opponents were the Sadducees (q.v.).
... brothers. Jesus illustrates this point in another well-known parable. (b) The Pharisee and the Publican 9 He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and despised others: 10 "Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, 'God, I thank thee that I am not like other... exalted." (Luke 18: 9-14) Humility is the lesson of this familiar parable. The praying Pharisee's pride in his goodness blocked out the love God asks us all to have for each other. The Pharisee was so busy congratulating himself for not being like other men, it never occurred to him that he was not much like God either. In contrast, the kneeling tax collector recognized the vast gulf between ...
... having belonged to the Jewish party-group named Pharisees (Philippians 3:5). The Pharisees, unlike the party-group of the Sad-ducees, believed in the doctrine of bodily resurrection. 70 To Paul, the Pharisee, the raising of the body from the dead was of paramount importance: without its resuscitation the ultimate being of man would be seriously truncated. An extreme emphasis falls on physical immortality... 21:40), that he was able to use so familiarly with only occasional semitisms, was a cultured form of the koine, i.e. the Greek of his own day..." Paul's Graeco-Roman culture fused with his Pharisee-faith and his borrowing from "popular Stoic-based philosophy" the concept of an immortal supraphysical entity in man must be remembered in relation to that other longest treatment of the Resurrec ...
... truth is taught. 2. Pharisee: one of a Jewish religious school of those times, marked by their strict observance of the law of Moses and other religious ordinances which had been added through the centuries. They were known to be more careful of the outward forms than the spirit of religion, and found the unconventional teachings of Jesus a threat. In modem English the word Pharisee has come to mean ...
... dness and desire. The altruist is profoundly conscious of himself and he is really ministering to himself even in his altruism; hence the hot & sickly odour of sentimentalism and the taint of the Pharisee which clings about European altruism. With the perfect Hindu the feeling of self Page 335 has been merged in the sense of the universe; he does his duty equally whether it happens to promote ...
... for India, the apostasy, the turning of his back on every principle for which he had stood in his books and speeches, the unctuous upholding of tyranny, the final consummation of the self-righteous Pharisee of liberty, the unrepentant oppressor of a rising nationality and a great resurgent civilisation. The culmination suits the beginning as a gargoyle suits a Gothic building; for the life of John Morley ...
... Paul knew Hebrew and Aramaic? The Jerusalem Bible 16 quotes him as saying: "I was born of the race of Israel and of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrew parents... As for the Law, I was a Pharisee..." (Philippians 3:5). The annotation 17 refers to Acts 21:40 and informs us that "Paul spoke Aramaic,... unlike the hellenist Jews" mentioned in Acts 6:lf. Acts 21:40 tells us in The Jerusalem Bible ...
... Army (INA) outside India. Popularly known as 'Netaji'. See Hark His Flute, book of poems by Dilipda, p. 145. A Parsi lady, Amal Kiran's (K.D. Sethna) first wife. Pharisee, a member of an ancient Jewish sect; a self- righteous person. Sadducee, a member of a Jewish party of the time of Christ that denied the resurrection of the dead, the existence of spirits ...
... was not till he wrested it from me by force that I saw how my soul had been hidden from me. 483) Sin is a trick & a disguise of Krishna to conceal Himself from the gaze of the virtuous. Behold, O Pharisee, God in the sinner, sin in thy self purifying thy heart; clasp thy brother. 484) Love of God, charity towards men is the first step towards perfect wisdom. 485) He who condemns failure & im ...
... Aphorisms , which are more and more amusing. Have you received them? ( Satprem reads ) 483—Sin is a trick and a disguise of Krishna to conceal Himself from the gaze of the virtuous. Behold, O Pharisee, God in the sinner, sin in thyself purifying thy heart; clasp thy brother. "Sin in thy heart," it looks like... Isn't it a joke? Is the word "sinning" or "fishing"?! 1 It's "sinning" ...
... inches ahead of Y, should stumble, tumble or fumble while Y, 3 inches behind X, still plods heavily and steadily on, etc., etc. Why, sir, the very idea in X that he is an advanced sadhak (like the Pharisee "I thank thee, 0 Lord, that I am not as other unadvanced disciples",) would be enough to make him fumble, stumble and tumble. So no more of that, sir, no more of that. 120 September 25, 1935 ...
... inches ahead of Y, should stumble, tumble or fumble while Y, 3 inches behind X, still plods heavily and steadily on, etc., etc. Why, sir, the very idea in X that he is an advanced sadhak (like the Pharisee "I thank thee, O Lord, that I am not as other unadvanced disciples",) would be enough to make him fumble, stumble and tumble. So no more of that, sir, no more of that. 35 Page 342 ...
... of men,—and in this respect the normal human being is a singular mixture of the sincere but quite ineffective, the just respectable, would-be ethical man and the self-deceiving or semi-hypocritical Pharisee,—one can always appeal with force to a moralistic prejudice. All religions raise high the flag of morality and, whether religious or secular-minded, all but the antinomian, the rebel and the cynic ...
... inches ahead of Y, should stumble, tumble or fumble while Y, 3 inches behind X, still plods heavily and steadily on, etc. etc. Why, sir, the very idea in X that he is an advanced sadhak (like the Pharisee, "I thank thee, O Lord, that I am not as other unadvanced disciples",) would be enough to make him fumble, stumble and tumble. So no more of that, sir, no more of that. 25 September 1935 Page ...
... becomes untrustworthy if it is an obedience not to the higher law of the soul, but to an outward moral law, a code of conduct. For then in place of a lifting enthusiasm we have the rigidity of the Pharisee, a puritan fierceness or narrowness or the life-killing tyranny of a single insufficient side of the nature. This is not yet that higher mental movement, but a straining towards it, an attempt to ...
... morals of the Asiatic has, by this time, been so badly damaged that we think even the Englishman might think twice before it bases its opposition to national aspirations on the pretensions of the Pharisee. It is evident that we are as good as the Europeans; we think we are in most respects better; we certainly could not be worse. Page 253 ...
... the keystone of a society that was everything Christ had denounced? Jesus died on the cross, for the benefit, it would seem, of those who united to slay him, the Sadducee, atheist & high priest, the Pharisee, zealot, hypocrite & persecutor and the brutal, self-seeking, callous military Roman. Now in its last state, after such a lamentable career, Christ's truth stands finally rejected by the world's recent ...
... Thoughts and Aphorisms Aphorism - 484 484—Sin is a trick and a disguise of Krishna to conceal Himself from the gaze of the virtuous. Behold, O Pharisee, God in the sinner, sin in thyself purifying thy heart; clasp thy brother. As always, in his striking and humorous way, Sri Aurobindo tells us that the Divine truth is above both virtue and ...
... hands before meals was obligatory only on the priests. An occasional 'pietist' might try to live, so far as outward purity was concerned, as if he were a priest, but the ordinary layman -including the Pharisee and the scribe - was not concerned with such questions of religious defilement unless he was about to enter the temple and make a sacrifice. Accordingly, the story as it stands can hardly be historical ...
... that his allegiance to Christ is not arbitrary, but the logical outcome of Pharisaism. I worship the God of our fathers: Lit., 'the paternal [ancestral] god'....The God whom he worshipped as a Pharisee is still the same as the one he now worships, all that is written in the Law and the Prophets; Christianity is thus presented... as the fulfilment of Judaism...Paul in his letters would not ...
... against the Pharisees. 23 1 Then said Jesus to the crowds and to his disciples, 2 "The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat; 3 so practice and observe whatever they tell you, hut not what they do; for they preach, hut do not practice. (Matt 23: 1-3) Jesus is saying that the Pharisees understand only the letter of the Law and not its spirit. So in the Gospels, the Pharisees are presented... warnings and attacks on the Pharisees in the New Testament, the Pharisees historically have played the chief role in preserving the Jewish people over the 2000 years after the Romans scattered the Jewish nation into the Diaspora after 70 CE. While always waiting and praying for the time that the Jewish nation could return to the Promised Land (now Israel), the Pharisees became the rabbis of the scattered... lives. From this reaction, there developed a sect of Judaism. These orthodox Jews were called Pharisees, meaning those who separated themselves from the gentiles, and from the Hellenising forces and tendencies which constantly faced and threatened Judaism in the Diaspora. By the time of Jesus, the Pharisees had become the strictest defenders of the Jewish religion and the Law. But while Jesus wished ...
... His secret chambers. 443—I was intoxicated with the rapture of my Lover and I threw the robe of the world from me even in the world's highways. Why should I care that the worldlings mock and the Pharisees turn their faces? 444—To thy lover, O Lord, the railing of the world is wild honey and the pelting of stones by the mob is summer rain on the body. For is it not Thou that railest and peltest, ...
... enemies who made sure that he was eliminated by crucifixion. These enemies were the religious officials and teachers of the Jewish establishment at that time. In the Gospels they are called Scribes and Pharisees. At this point, the reader should be reminded that Judea and its capital, Jerusalem were occupied by Rome. The Hebrew people were not free to govern ______________ * repentance: the feeling... and Christian people. However, Jesus said that mercy and compassion were more important than rules and regulations. Once when he cured a man's withered hand in the synagogue*- on the Sabbath, the Pharisees were furious and "egan to plot to kill him. But Jesus insisted "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath." ________ *synagogue: the place of worship and gathering of a Jewish... say, he virtually declared himself to be God. In the Gospels, Jesus forgives sins. How can a man forgive sin? Only God can forgive sins. There are several such incidents in the Gospels. When the Pharisees witnessed the curing of a paralyzed man after Jesus said to him "Your sins are forgiven." they angrily exclaimed, "Who is this that speaks blasphemies*? Who can forgive sins but God alone ...
... means we have been smoking Ganja in solitude here. NIRODBARAN: Oh, they think much worse than that. PURANI: Some of these people are strictly ethical and moral. SRI AUROBINDO: That is the Pharisee's "I am not a sinner" type. Hiren Dutt was a clever solicitor. He was the solicitor in my case, in all my cases, I think, and he was one of the few who remained faithful after the collapse of our ...
... outburst of indignation with which the new school propaganda is being received in some quarters, is therefore perfectly natural. But it is not these unbelievers whom we want to reach and influence. The Pharisees and Philistines will ever dog our footsteps and try their best to dissuade us and to defeat us. They will even try to bring about the persecution of the true patriots; but this too none need fear; ...
... nature that has to be changed ... outside people put as much as possible a mask of social manners and other pretences over Page 41 the rottenness - what Christ called in the case of the Pharisees the 'whited sepulchre'. Moreover there one can pick and choose the people one will associate with while in the narrow limits of the Ashram it is not so possible -contacts are inevitable. Wherever ...
... God" by Dick Batstone. In one place it carried the following footnote by the Editor: "The author has overlooked one reference in the New Testament, Luke 17:20-21: 'And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the Kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The Kingdom of God cometh not with observation; neither shall they say, Lo here! or, Io there! for, behold, the Kingdom of God is within ...
... epitome of the human nature that has to be changed—but outside people put as much as possible a mask of social manners and other pretences over the rottenness—What Christ called in the case of the Pharisees the "whited sepulchre". Moreover there one can pick and choose the people one will associate with while in the narrow limits of the Asram it is not so possible—contacts are inevitable. Wherever humans ...
... epitome of the human nature that has to be changed—but outside people put as much as possible a mask of social manners and other pretences over the rottenness—what Christ called in the case of the Pharisees the "whited sepulchre". Moreover there one can pick and choose the people one will associate with while in the narrow limits of the Asram it is not so possible—contacts are inevitable. Wherever humans ...
... many Christian writers have a way of writing and preaching which gives a sense of unpleasant unctuousness, a very small dish of religious emotion swimming in a too fat oil of holiness—as if the Pharisees 7 and Sadducees 8 had not only crucified Christ but laid the grip of their ecclesiasticism and Pharisaism on the religion also. Excuse the culinary simile—a little sport, as you say—and my growl ...
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