does not justify the means. Damnable means dare not be used even if, through them, good or apparent good is done. That is the point of the double question. The Sadducees could not, of course, unlike the Pharisees in the Sanhedrin, claim that Beelzebul was the source of Jesus’ power and name, for they denied the existence of angels and of spirits. Yet Josephus, Ant. 18, 1, 4, informs us that they were base enough, when it served their purpose, to “addict themselves to the notions of the Pharisees