" "Nay, Mr. Marston; God forbid I should harden my sinful heart with the wicked pride of the Pharisee.

" "Then it's the Lord's day," added the Pharisee, "and it is not seemly to dwell too much on worldly interests, on the Sabbath.

He spent his whole day in hurrying backwards and forwards from one Pharisee to another, and making his final agreements with them.

" Yes, gentlemen, I am no Pharisee, but I do believe that my anchor holds, and your cheers show that you believe it too.

He read all about the Centurion, he read all about the Widow's Son, he read all about the answer to the disciples of St. John; and so he came to that place where the rich Pharisee invites our Lord to be his guest.

"So it is quite plain that I too have something of the Pharisee about me.

And suppose He were to come to me, should I treat Him as the Pharisee did?"

I was reading how He went to the Pharisee, and how the Pharisee did not meet Him half-way.

I was reading how He went to the Pharisee, and how the Pharisee did not meet Him half-way.

The Pharisee becomes a selfish individualist just because he has forgotten this; the Essene, a selfish "mystic" for the same reason; Philo and the Jewish mystics of Alexandria lose in like manner all notion that Jehovah is the lawgiver, and ruler, and archetype of family and of national life.

The Pharisee and the Publican X. The Rich Man and Lazarus XI.

THE PHARISEE AND THE PUBLICAN.

He spake to these a Parable, And said, There were two men, One of them was a Pharisee, And one a Publican, Who went into the Temple once To offer solemn prayer, The one did show a haughty face, The other shed a tear.

The Pharisee went to his house, Elated with his pride; The Publican turn'd towards his home, The rather justified.

The note of the satirist is seldom absent, blended at times with just a suspicion of that of the Pharisee.

All day, between his three or four sleeps, he coos like a pigeon-house, sputters, and spurs, and puts on his faces of importance; and when he fasts, the little Pharisee fails not to sound his trumpet before him.

While he is thus healthily free from the taint of the partisan, he is also independent of the austere insensibility of the judicial Pharisee, whose boast is that he decides questions relating to human nature without any admixture of human instinct and human feeling.

A born Pharisee, he is really, and yet with Christianity struggling in him here and there; and that's why he's rather interesting, in spite of his dullness.

The whole story is an architectural version of the parable of the Pharisee and the Publican who went down to the temple to pray.

"The self-applauding bird, the peacock, see Mark what a sumptuous pharisee is he!"Cowper, i, 49.

Or, again, she had been thought the enemy of Art by the Greek-spirited; the enemy of Law by the Latins; the enemy of Religion by the Hebraic Pharisee.

Outward exercise of religious duties, wherein a Pharisee may outstrip many; and yet, O how many build all their hopes of heaven upon this sandy foundation, which none but blinded persons would do!

He is the Pharisee, it may be the good Pharisee, of the kingdom of Heaven; but if the proud churchman be in the kingdom at all, it must be as one of the least in it.

He is the Pharisee, it may be the good Pharisee, of the kingdom of Heaven; but if the proud churchman be in the kingdom at all, it must be as one of the least in it.

The pride of the Pharisee was gone, the dignity of the husband had vanished, and his soul longed after the love that covers a multitude of sins, as the air in which alone his spirit could breathe and live and find room.