Crossword-Solution: SYNAGOG 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

For, as for your Romane Kirk, as it is now corrupted, and the authoritie thairof, whairin standis the hope of your victorie, I no more dowbt but that it is the synagog of Sathan, and the head thairof, called the Pape, to be that man of syne, of whome the Apostle speakis, then that I doubt that Jesus Christ suffurred by the procurement of the visible Kirk of Hierusalem.

The Jews would have no dealings with the Samaritans.[164] The proud feeling of self-sufficiency, the obsession for exclusiveness and separation--so distinctively a Jewish trait at that time--was inculcated at the maternal knee and emphasized in synagog and school.

Ezra is designated "the priest, the scribe, even a scribe of the words of the commandments of the Lord, and of his statutes to Israel".[170] The scribes of those days did valuable service under Ezra, and later under Nehemiah, in compiling the sacred writings then extant; and in Jewish usage those appointed as guardians and expounders of the law came to be known as members of the Great Synagog, or Great Assembly, concerning which we have little information through canonical channels.

The Sadducees stood for the temple and its prescribed ordinances, the Pharisees for the synagog and its rabbinical teachings.

During a period not definitely stated, He taught in the synagogs of the towns and was received with favor, being glorified of all.[389] He then returned to Nazareth, His former home, and as was his custom, attended the synagog on the Sabbath day.