Pharisee - from Hebrew "parash", "parush" - "to interpret", "to explain", "interpreter" (of the Law); "to separate" "to elect", "chosen".

      Also means "separated," i.e., one who proudly separates, arrogantly "equates" himself from "infidels," i.e., from people with other religious views and considers only his own worldview true. 

"Pharisee" is a representative of a Jewish religious sect characterized by strict adherence to the outward aspects of the law and adherence to the traditions of the Jewish religious teachers.

 "Pharisee" is an image of a person who hypocritically honors God in words but not in deeds,  

  formally performing the service of the Will of God, observing outward religious decorum, who is fanatically confident in all his religious beliefs, believing all his religious views to be exclusive and t