 | Charles Ewart Butler - 1883 - 100 sivua
...him altogether astray, and to cancel the good beginning which he had made. " God, I thank Thee that I am not as other men are ... or even as this Publican." Such was the presumptuous form which his next thoughts assumed". Confession of his own sins, the offering... | |
 | John James Stewart Perowne (bp. of Worcester) - 1883 - 676 sivua
...to make. But it is not self-righteous. It is not the utterance of the Pharisee, " God, I thank Thee I am not as other men are, or even as this publican." It is made solemnly in the presence of God, with a direct appeal to Him as knowing the heart : " From... | |
 | Duncan M. West - 1883 - 348 sivua
...the young ruler, all the commandments from my youth up; or do I, with Pharisaic pride, thank God that I am not as other men are, or even as this publican? Is the Lord Jesus Christ my Saviour? and if I cannot say He is, then His words are applicable to me,... | |
 | Edward Meyrick Goulburn - 1886 - 392 sivua
...with him. Whereas the Pharisee disparages others in comparison with himself ; " God, I thank thee that I am not as other men are, ... or even as this publican." The profound humility which must characterize acceptable prayer, shall then be my Monday's thought.... | |
 | Phillips Brooks - 1891 - 330 sivua
...for more completely doing His will by-and-by. Do you remember the prayers that came in contrast — that of the Pharisee, " Lord, I thank Thee that I am not as other men are, or even as this publican " ; and on the other side the publican saying, " God be merciful to me a (the) sinner" ? We may believe... | |
 | Edward Anderson Thomson - 1891 - 366 sivua
...are not the selfisleet. For look at these- two men, at the Pharisee with his "God, I thank Thee that I am not as other men are, or even as this publican," and then at the publican with his " God be merciful to me a sinner." The LORD seeth not as man seeth.... | |
 | Phillips Brooks - 1895 - 334 sivua
...more completely doing His will by-and-by. Do you remember the prayers that came in contrast—that of the Pharisee, " Lord, I thank Thee that I am not as other men are, or even as this publican " ; and on the other side the publican saying, " God be merciful to me a (the) sinner " ? We may believe... | |
 | Alexander Whyte - 1902 - 328 sivua
...himself shall be exalted. Could contrast be greater than between that and this? God I thank Thee that I am not as other men are, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. No ; contrast could not further go than... | |
 | 1905 - 1002 sivua
...When we meet the Pharisee who says in the tone of his voice or the posture of his figure, " Thank God, I am not as other men are, or even as this publican," we know that it is fundamentally wrong. But when we meet a rich young man, eager to do what is right,... | |
 | Joseph Alexander Leighton - 1907 - 272 sivua
...the spiritual life. See especially the story of the Pharisee and the publican, the contrast between "Lord, I thank thee that I am not as other men are, or even as this publican," and "Lord, be merciful to me a sinner" (Luke 18 : 9-14). This sense of failure and weakness, of deadness... | |
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