{"def":{"lit":"the righteous","short":"a Sadducaean (i.e., Tsadokian), or follower of a certain heretical Israelite","long":["a religious party at the time of Christ among the Jews, who denied that the oral law was a revelation of God to the Israelites, and who deemed the written law alone to be obligatory on the nation, as the divine authority"]},"deriv":"probably from G4524","pronun":{"ipa":"sɑð.ðuˈkɛ.os","ipa_mod":"sɑð.ðuˈke.ows","sbl":"saddoukaios","dic":"sahth-thoo-KEH-ose","dic_mod":"sahth-thoo-KAY-ose"},"see":["G4524"],"comment":"They denied the following doctrines: (1) the resurrection of the body, (2) immortality of the soul, (3) existence of spirits and angels, (4) divine predestination."}