This heresy, sect, opinion, or way of the Pharisees, St. Paul rigthly commends, if we consider it comparatively with the other sects of the Sadducees and Essenes: he had called this before, Acts 22:3, the most exact manner of the law of the fathers; for it is certain it was more learned and strict, and came nigher to the truth in many things, than the other did.
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Acts 26:5
5 Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.