Φαρισαῖος: Difference between revisions

|txtha=Φαρισαίου, ὁ, a [[Pharisee]], a [[member]] of the [[sect]] or [[party]] of the Pharisees (Syriac)SYrP , rabbinic writings פְּרוּשִׁין, from פָּרַשׁ, 'to [[separate]]', [[because]] deviating in [[their]] [[life]] from the [[general]] [[usage]]; Suidas, [[under]] the [[word]], quotes Cedrenus as follows, Φαρισαῖοι, οἱ ἐρμηνευόμενοι ἀφωρισμένοι. [[παρά]] τό μερίζειν καί ἀφορίζειν ἑαυτούς τῶν ἄλλων ἁπάντων [[εἰς]] τέ τό καθαρωτατον [[τοῦ]] βίου καί ἀκριβεστατον, καί [[εἰς]] τά [[τοῦ]] νόμου ἐντάλματα). The [[first]] and [[feeble]] beginnings of [[this]] [[sect]] [[seem]] to be [[traceable]] to the [[age]] [[immediately]] [[succeeding]] the [[return]] from [[exile]]. In [[addition]] to the books of the O. T. the Pharisees recognized in [[oral]] [[tradition]] ([[see]] [[παράδοσις]], 2) a [[standard]] of [[belief]] and [[life]] (Josephus, Antiquities 13,10, 6; Romans , [[they]] [[stoutly]] upheld the theocracy and [[their]] [[country]]'s [[cause]], and [[possessed]] [[great]] [[influence]] [[with]] the [[common]] [[people]]. According to Josephus (Antiquities 17,2, 4) [[they]] numbered [[more]] [[than]] 6,000. They were [[bitter]] enemies of Jesus and his [[cause]]; and were in [[turn]] [[severely]] rebuked by him for [[their]] [[avarice]], [[ambition]], [[hollow]] [[reliance]] on [[outward]] works, and [[affectation]] of [[piety]] in [[order]] to [[gain]] [[notoriety]]: L in brackets T); G T Tr WH [[omit]]; L brackets the [[clause]]),Winer s RWB, [[under]] the [[word]], Pharisäer; Reuss in Herzog xi., p. 496, and the works referred to [[above]] [[under]] the [[word]] [[Σαδδουκαῖος]], at the [[end]] ([[especially]] Sieffert's [[dissertation]] in Herzog edition 2 (vol. xiii., p. 210ff) and the [[copious]] references at its [[close]]). An [[admirable]] [[idea]] of the opinions and practices of the Pharisees [[may]] be gathered [[also]] from Paret, Ueber d. Pharisäismus des Josephus, in the Theol. Studien und Kritiken for 1856, No. 4, p. 809ff.