The following parable - of the publican and the Pharisee - is recorded in the eighteenth ... he only beats his breast and prays: God be merciful to me a sinner! The modest publican concentrated his ...

It was therefore according to common opinion that the Lord Jesus in His parable signified a virtuous person by a Pharisee, and a sinner by a Publican, to teach His disciples the harm of pride and the ...