| Religious Life withdraws from pure interiority, affirming the incarnation of grace, as well as rejecting pharisaism, legalism, and the externalization of religious rites without a corresponding inner experience. |
| Pharisaism and rabbinism in particular made an effort to realize this attitude. |
| For Christy was the typical product of conventionality and Pharisaism. |
| Serious and substantial doubts about Paul's former life as a Pharisee, or even any contact with pharisaism on his part, have been raised. |
| Justification, in Pharisaism as for St. Paul, means the verdict of acquittal. |
| Pharisaism is, as it were, the culmination of a biblical movement, of a living tradition which began around Deuteronomy after and even before the exile. |
