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Jewish traditions

The Sadducees reasoned falsely about the resurrec- tion, but not so blindly as the Pharisees, who believed

error to be as immortal as Truth. The Pharisees thought that they could raise the spiritual from the material. They would first make life result in death, and then resort to death to reproduce spiritual life. Jesus taught them how death was to be overcome by spiritual Life, and demonstrated this beyond cavil.