Scribes and Pharisees
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Adversus Marcionem
Jewish religious teachers referenced as the standard of righteousness that Christian goodness is called to surpass.
The first reason of goodness, then, being to be exhibited toward one's own out of justice, and the second toward another out of the overflow of justice above the Scribes and Pharisees — what sort of thing is it that the second reason should be referred to him to whom the first is lacking, who has no man of his own, and thereby is also of scant goodness?
so that he who was announced — that is, Christ — their chief wise men, that is the scribes, and their prudent men, that is the Pharisees, were to err concerning him;
But if the scribes esteemed Christ the son of David, while David himself calls him lord, what is this to Christ?
Stromata
Jewish religious authorities, invoked as a standard of understanding the gnostic surpasses.
By attention, then, as it seems, to the evil and the good life the gnostic is saved, understanding and working more than the scribes and Pharisees.
"Unless your righteousness exceed more than that of the scribes and Pharisees" — who are justified by abstention from evils — "by the being able, together with the perfection in these things, to love the neighbour too and to do good, you shall not be kingly.
Adversus Judaeos
Jewish religious leaders read as prefigured by Simeon and Levi.
When Jacob extended his blessing upon Simeon and Levi, he prophesies concerning the scribes and the Pharisees;
De Anima
Jewish religious authorities against whom Christ directed rational indignation.
the indignant, by which He inveighs against the scribes and pharisees;
De Carnis Resurrectione
The scribes and Pharisees, likened by the Lord to whitened sepulchres.
And so the resurrection too is to be claimed as that by which a man, having approached the truth, re-animated and re-quickened, the death of ignorance shaken off, has burst forth as from the sepulchre of the old man — because the Lord too likened the scribes and Pharisees to whitened sepulchres.
De Monogamia
Jewish religious authorities used as a negative or comparative example
but those things which look toward righteousness not only remain reserved, but even enlarged, so that, namely, our righteousness may be able to abound beyond the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees.
And indeed, if Christ reproves the scribes and Pharisees, sitting in Moses' seat and not doing what they taught, what kind of thing would it be that he himself should set upon his own seat men who should remember to enjoin the holiness of the flesh rather than to undertake it—when he had urged it in all ways both to be taught and to be done?