Geneva Study Bible {3} The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican) Although we confess that whatever we have, we have it from God, yet we are despised by God as proud and arrogant if we put even the least trust in our own works before God.
Meyer's NT Commentary Luke 18:11-12 . Σταθείς] See on Matthew 6:5 He took his stand , a trait of assurance, comp. Luke 19:8 ; Acts 2:14 . See, on the other hand, Luke 18:13 : μακρόθεν ἑστώς. πρὸς ἑαυτόν] does not belong to σταθείς, so that it would mean apart (Syr., Beza, Grotius, Paulus, Baumgarten-Crusius, Ewald, and others, which would be καθʼ ἑαυτόν (Xen. Anab . v. 10. 11; Acts 28:16 ; Jam Zechariah 12:12 ), as D actually reads but to προσηύχετο (Luther, Castalio, Bengel, Wetstein, and others, including Olshausen, de Wette, Bleek[226]): by himself, to himself , apud animum suum, as at Ma 11:13 , and frequently in the classical writers λέγειν πρὸς ἑαυτόν, to speak in thought, and the like. Naturally he would not allow such a prayer to be heard. The publican is otherwise, Luke 18:13 ὅτι οὐκ εἰμὶ κ.τ.λ.] πρότερον γὰρ εἶπεν ἃ οὐκ ἔστιν, καὶ τότε κατέλεξεν ἅ ἐστιν, Theophylact. οἱ λοιποὶ τῶν ἀνθρ.] comp. Revelation 9:20 ; Kühner, II. p. 122.[227] ἄδικοι] unjust in the more limited sense. ὡς οὗτος ὁ τελώνης] contemptuously, this publican here! “who skins and scrapes everyone, and clutches wherever he can Luther, Predigt Luke 18:12 . νηστεύω] of private fasting , which was observed twice in the week (τοῦ
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