Scribes

<p>Scribes -- the scribes had a good beginning. Evidently Ezra was a scribe and the founder of that group. They were the professional expounders of the Law. However, by the time of our Lord they had become "hair-splitters" and were more concerned with the letter of the Law than with the spirit of the Law.

That, I think, is one of the great problems we have today. There has been put into the interpretation of the laws in this country this "hair-splitting" method and the philosophical interpretation that was never intended in the law. I believe that is what has come out of certain law schools in the East. As a result, our legal system and our political system are in the mess we find today. That is what had happened to religion in our Lord's day.

Thru The Bible with J. Vernon McGee.</p>