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Excerpt from Jesus and His Parables
In the Jowett Lectures1 of 1910, Dr. Montefiore says of the picture of the Pharisee and the Publican, that it is a ludicrous caricature of the average Pharisee, a monstrous caricature of the pharisaic id This is to forget that J esms in His teaching deliberately bordered on the extravagant (of. Matt. V. 39 He is not a professor giving propositional pronounce ments - making historical estimate of a learned, if somewhat pedantic, class. He is handling a popular audience by the method of tour deforce. He pictures.
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