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I might as well tell the Pharisee, who bids me let myself go, to take to drink, in order that he may learn moral humility, or to do dishonest things for the discipline of reprobation. I do not think so ill of God as not to believe that he is trying to help me; as the old poet said, "The Gods give to each man whatever is most appropriate to him. Man is dearer to the Gods than to himself."
The proof of a faith is not in its prestige, but in its present power. Things divine are not defended by dodging. It is the heart that gives ease to any work. The door of truth never opens to the key of prejudice. Love never knows how much it gives nor what it costs. The scribe and the Pharisee are still with us.
And then, remember, that when you begin to talk about the guilt of actions in God's sight, you have to go far below the mere surface. If we could see the infinite complexity of motives aggravations on the one side and palliations on the other which go to the doing of a single deed, we should not be so quick to pronounce that the publican and the harlot are worse than the Pharisee.
When quite young he studied the law and some Grecian literature at the feet of Gamaliel in Jerusalem, among the thousand students who listened to the wisdom of that master. He states that he was a very zealous Pharisee, who persecuted the Christians. But all of a sudden he embraced the cause of the persecuted, and became one of its most zealous apostles.
All inquirers can be ranged under two heads: they have either the spirit of the Pharisee, or the spirit of the publican.
He was doubtless a bigoted Stoic, as Paul was, at one time, a bigoted Pharisee; and the great delusion of his life was to rear a basis of national prosperity on the sublime morality of the philosophers whom he copied. He sought to save the state by the Stoical philosophy.
However, there will always be those who are true to him who has chosen them out of the world, and after long days of weary waiting their hearts will rejoice in the sudden appearing of the righteous judge who will bring with him glories brighter than they have dared to ask or to expect. The Pharisee and the Publican. Ch. 18:9-14
An aunt, very fond of her, said to her, one day as they were parting, "Come and see me as often as you can, dear, for you know, after this world we shall never meet again." These religious tribulations incited her to write a short story, after the parable of the Pharisee and the Publican, to contrast two kinds of religion, of one of which she had seen more than was good.
He went with the hypocrite and had mercy on the Pharisee. It is just what I imagine the man might, if he pleased, say for himself." In 1873 appeared Red-Cotton Night-Cap Country, which, if it be not absolutely one of the finest of Browning's poems, is certainly one of the most magnificently Browningesque. The origin of the name of the poem is probably well known.
'But, Geordie, I remonstrated, 'he doesn't know anything of the doctrines. I don't believe he could give us "The Chief End of Man." 'An' wha's tae blame for that? said Geordie, with fine indignation. 'An' maybe you remember the prood Pharisee and the puir wumman that cam' creepin' in ahint the Maister.
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