[56] It is not admitted by the best authorities that the term ‘Pharisee’ is in any way connected with the name of ‘Persian’ or its modern equivalent ‘Parsee.’ But the resemblance in beliefs and habits is very striking, especially if we contrast the Pharisees with their Sadducee opponents. ‘The Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess both’ Acts xxiii 8.
[57] D. A. Bertholet, ‘The value of the history of religions,’ Homiletic Review, Nov. 1908.
[58] See Fairweather, Background of the Gospels, ch. vii (on ‘the apocalyptic movement and literature’).
[59] ib. p. 337.
[61] Heinze, Lehre vom Logos, pp. 251, 252.
[62] ‘The Logos is related to God as Wisdom, and is the full expression of the Divine mind. He is the sheckinah or glory of God, the first-born Son of God, the second God’ Fairweather, Background of the Gospels, p. 358.
[63] Friedländer, Die religiösen Bewegungen innerhalb des Judaïsmus, 1905.
[64] ‘There were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God’ Revelation iv 5.
[65] Of these Antipater of Tarsus is the best known, for whom see § [110]; others are Heraclides, Archedemus, Zeno of Tarsus, Nestor, Athenodorus, etc., for whom see Index of Proper Names.