However, as I would later find out, this verse is now universally recognized as being a later "insertion" of the Church and all recent versions of the Bible, such as the Revised Standard Version the New Revised Standard Version, the New American Standard Bible, the New English Bible, the ...
"Pharisee" is from a Greek word (pharisaios) taken from the Heb/Aramaic "Perisha" meaning "Separated one." In the time of Jesus the Pharisees were one of the three chief Jewish sects, the others were the Sadducees and the Essenes. Of the three, the Pharisees were the most separated...
The notion of the devil does not originate in the Bible, as many may think – In the Old Testament, Satan is just another one of God’s servants. It is in Iran that the religious teacher Zarathustra simplified things, ending up with only two – a God of the Good and a God of Evil...
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14. The Story of the GH. —How is it, then, that we have in so many words the two strongest gutturals in the language— g and h —not only separately, in so many of our words, but combined? The story is an odd one. Our Old English or Saxon scribes wrote—not light , might...
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the Pharisees, the successors of the Assideans. The oldest parts of the "Sibylline Oracles" and of the "Book of Enoch" are probably remainders of the literature of his day. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Aristobulus I (Heb. name, Judas), who was the first Machabean ruler to ...
Herod tried to have Jesus killed so there would not be challenges to Herod's authority. What did King Herod do in the Bible? The story of King Herod in the Bible showed a mad tyrant seeking to maintain his control over his kingdom of Judea. When he found out the Jewish Messiah ...
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their teaching solely on reverence for God and his law; these were the Hasids (“faithful ones”), from whom came the Pharisees, and the Essenes, who distanced themselves in an even more systematic way and whose thought and way of life have been revealed to us in the Dead Sea scrolls....