Sages

Emunas Chachomim (difficult to translate this, Faith in the Sages is literal but misleading) vs. Papal Infallibiltiy.

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They seemed, however, to be more directly concerned than the others had been in the effective execution of the great principle of the office, as there was an awful inner apartment with a double door, in which the Circumlocution Sages appeared to be assembled in council, and out of which there was an imposing coming of papers, and into which there was an imposing going of papers, almost constantly; wherein another gentleman, number four, was the active instrument.

Little Dorrit 2007

They seemed, however, to be more directly concerned than the others had been in the effective execution of the great principle of the office, as there was an awful inner apartment with a double door, in which the Circumlocution Sages appeared to be assembled in council, and out of which there was an imposing coming of papers, and into which there was an imposing going of papers, almost constantly; wherein another gentleman, number four, was the active instrument.

Little Dorrit Charles Dickens 1841

That is why my husband Gordon Dveirin and I wrote Your Soul's Compass: What Is Spiritual Guidance? based on interviews with 27 "Sages" from the world's great wisdom traditions, including leading Christians, Jews, Sufis, Hindus, Buddhists, Quakers, and Shamans.

Joan Borysenko: Faith Versus Reason: How Can We Know if We're on the Right Track? 2008

So again, Judaism at the time Christianity originated believed that male homosexual intercourse was prohibited to all men, not only to Jews, and Paul, who claimed to have studied the Law from the Sages, would have been familiar with those beliefs.

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Our Sages comment that when we are born our fists our clenched and when we die they open.

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But the Virginian also revered Jesus as "the first of human Sages" and was, according to one biographer, "the most self-consciously theological of all American presidents."

Thomas Jefferson's Cut-and-Paste Bible Stephen Prothero 2011

Our Sages comment that when we are born our fists our clenched and when we die they open.

Rabbi Will Berkovitz: God, Life And The Spiritual Practice Of Surrendering 'Complete Control' Rabbi Will Berkovitz 2011

See also the Sages who noted that the Hebrews had sunken to the lowest levels of the sexually and morally depraved Egyptian culture — having entered “49 of the 50 gates of impurity”, and that the reason they were taken out so abruptly is the danger that had they remained any longer, they would have sunken past the level of being able to be redeemend — as indeed 80% of them already had (seeRashi).

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The Sages of the Talmud included the surviving members of the Great Assembly and their students over the next several generations.

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