She is still a Pharisee of the Phariseeson the surface.

It was the conflict of the priest against the prophet in ancient Judaea, of the Pharisee against the Nazarene, of the Realist against the Nominalist, of the Church against the Franciscan and the Lollard, of the Respectable Person against the Artist, of the hedge-clippers of mankind against the shooting buds.

He sends the multitude away; He goes apart into a mountain with His chosen disciples; He withdraws Himself from the throng in Jerusalem to the quiet home in Bethany; He discourses of the profoundest purposes of His mission with the Twelve in an upper room; He opens the treasures of His wisdom before one Pharisee at night, and one unresponsive woman by the well."

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

To an educated and rigid Pharisee like St. Paul they were a treasure house of teaching.

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

The Pharisee in the parable was vain, not proud, because he was comparing himself with other people.