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"Do you not know the Feast of Scribes, that is held in Marrakesh and Fez?" he asked.
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They were called Scribes or writers -- pedants, men of ponderous learning and accurate definitions; from being mere transcribers of the law, they had risen to be its expounders.
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Now give heed to the principle herein contained: the Scribes were the wise men who prided themselves upon their knowledge; and the
The History and Life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler with Twenty-Five of his Sermons
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These two centuries may fitly be called the school-days of the Jewish nation; the Scribes were the teachers of Jewry.
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But the religion which they professed was the true religion; the Scribes were the expounders of the Word of God, and the Pharisees occupied the foremost places in the house of God.
The Preacher and His Models The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891
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: They are called Scribes, not from the employment of writing, but from the interpretation of the Scriptures, for they were doctors of the law.
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Jerome: He calls the Scribes and Pharisees who are the clergy of the
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Scribes, that is, the men of the letter [marg. note: literati], who preside over the letter that killeth; and Elders, not in truth, but in the obsolete ancientness of the letter.
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Thus He does not call the Scribes and Pharisees unrighteous, but speaks of "their righteousness."
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Jerome: Or the Apostles are called Scribes instructed, as being the
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