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1 Pharisaism -- rank: 1000

Pharisaism definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary PHAR'ISAISM, n. The notions ... pharisaical character, spirit, or attitude ; hypocrisy Webster's 1913 Dictionary Pharisaism Phar`i*sa"ism, n. [Cf. F. pharisaisme.] 1. The ... spirit in matters of morals or manners. ``A piece of pharisaism.'' --Hammond. Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms n. Hypocrisy, formalism ...

2 MACCABEES, BOOKS OF -- rank: 598

... the day. Several scholars consider 2 Maccabees the answer of Pharisaism to the Sadduceeism of 1 Maccabees (see Wellhausen, Die Pharisaer ... 2 Maccabees does give prominence to the distinctive tenets of Pharisaism, and it was probably written on that account. (1) The ... 2 Maccabees shows a Jewish particularism which agrees well with Pharisaism and Scribism, but is opposed to the broader sentiments of ... this book and forming part of the creed of orthodox Pharisaism are adduced by Romanists on behalf of their own teaching ... Macc 2:21). The author's views approach those of Pharisaism. (1) He extols the self-sacrificing devotion to the law ...

3 Hypocrisy -- rank: 461

... VAR [disapproval] Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms n. 1. Pharisaism, formalism, sanctimoniousness, cant, pietism, assumed piety. 2. Dissimulation, deceit, deception, imposture, pretence, false profession. Moby Thesaurus Pecksniffery, Pharisaism, Tartuffery, Tartuffism, affectation, affectedness, airs, airs and graces, artfulness, artificiality ... mendacity, mere show, mouthing, mummery, oiliness, ostentatious devotion, pecksniffery, pharisaicalness, pharisaism, pietism, pietisticalness, piety, piousness, pretense, pretension, prunes and prisms, public ...

4 Pharisees -- rank: 461

... to writing. It may thus be said that Judaism became Pharisaism, and the history of the Jews became that of the ... Jewish Encyclopedia, under the word "Erub"): The great defect of Pharisaism was that it made sin so purely external. An act ... when their Lord had left them. The after-history of Pharisaism has justified Our Lord's condemnation. LITERATURE. Histories of Israel ...

5 MATTHEW, THE GOSPEL OF -- rank: 364

... the Law over against the superficial interpretation of the current Pharisaism, which led the advocates of the latter in all honesty ... Gospel of Mt shows a "diametrical contrast between Christ and Pharisaism." Over against the false Messianic ideas and ideals of contemporary ...

6 SIN -- rank: 364

... came to their culmination in the New Testament times in Pharisaism. On the other hand, a fresh insight by a new ... most ordinary observer. The invective of Jesus against New Testament Pharisaism took its force largely from the fact that Jesus gave ...

7 Phariseeism -- rank: 364

... s 1913 Dictionary Phariseeism Phar"i*see*ism, n. See Pharisaism. Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms n. See pharisaism.

8 self-righteousness -- rank: 364

... ness, n. The quality or state of being self-righteous; pharisaism. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary see self-righteous International Standard Bible ... piety, falseness, goody-goodiness, hypocrisy, insincerity, mealymouthedness, mummery, oiliness, pharisaicalness, pharisaism, pietism, pietisticalness, piety, piousness, religionism, religiosity, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, snivel, snuffle ...

9 Justification -- rank: 230

... works" as meaning practical morality, going back behind legalism, behind Pharisaism, to the position of the Old Testament prophets, whereas Paul ...

10 Insincerity -- rank: 230

... mockery, mummery, mystification, obfuscation, obscurantism, oiliness, oversubtlety, perjury, perversion, pharisaicalness, pharisaism, philosophism, pietism, pietisticalness, piety, piousness, plausibility, plausibleness, pretense, pretension, prunes ...

11 HEBREWS, EPISTLE TO THE -- rank: 230

... is not nearly as intense as that of Paul to Pharisaism. There is nothing that renders it intrinsically impossible that Barnabas ...

12 Mummery -- rank: 230

... oiliness, ostentatious devotion, overacting, pantomiming, patter, performance, performing, personation, pharisaicalness, pharisaism, pietism, pietisticalness, piety, piousness, playacting, playing, portrayal, projection, protective coloration ...

13 Mouthing -- rank: 230

... mug, mumble, mumbling, mummery, murmuring, mutter, muttering, oiliness, ostentatious devotion, pharisaism, religiosity, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, snuffling, soft soap, susurration, sweet talk, tokenism ...

14 Falseness -- rank: 230

... mummery, oiliness, outwitting, overreaching, peccancy, perfidiousness, perfidy, perversion, phantasm, pharisaicalness, pharisaism, pietism, pietisticalness, piety, piousness, prestidigitation, putting on, recreancy, religionism, religiosity ...

15 Dissimulation -- rank: 230

... dealing, duplicity, feigning, guile, hiding, hypocrisy, lip server, masking, misrepresentation, pharisaism, pharisee, pretense, sanctimony, secreting, sham, whited sepulcher