"Hesitate" was incorrectly typeset as "hestitate" from the first
through the tenth Urantia Foundation printings. It was corrected in the
1993 printing.
Original Paragraph:
P1340:1, 121:7.3
The scribes, the Pharisees, and the priesthood held the Jews in a terrible bondage
of ritualism and legalism, a bondage far more real than that of the Roman political
rule. The Jews of Jesus' time were not only held in subjugation to the law
but were equally bound by the slavish demands of the traditions, which
involved and invaded every domain of personal and social life. These minute
regulations of conduct pursued and dominated every loyal Jew, and it is not
strange that they promptly rejected one of their number who presumed to ignore
their sacred traditions, and who dared to flout their long-honored regulations
of social conduct. They could hardly regard with favor the teachings of one
who did not hestitate to clash with dogmas which
they regarded as having been ordained by Father Abraham himself. Moses had given
them their law and they would not compromise.