Terms vs Phylacteries - What's the difference?
terms | phylacteries |
* New Testament, Matthew 23:5 [http://net.bible.org/passage.php?passage=mat+23:5]
* R. Eliezer, Talmud: Sabbath; Circumcision [http://www.totse.com/en/religion/judaism/talmudsabbathc179054.html]
As nouns the difference between terms and phylacteries
is that terms is while phylacteries is .phylacteries
English
Noun
(head)- They do all their deeds to be seen by people, for they make their phylacteries wide and their tassels long.''
- It once happened that the government promulgated a decree by which all Israelites who would use Tephillin (phylacteries') were to be decapitated. This Elisha donned his '''phylacteries''' and went out into the market. He was seen by a casdor (qu?stor), and the latter pursued him. Seeing that he could not escape, Elisha took the ' phylacteries from his head and carried them in his hand. When questioned by the qu?stor what he carried in his hand, he replied: "Wings of doves."
