Verse 14
14. I tell you With what emphasis and power did this tell you come from this divine I.
Down to his house Where went the strutting Pharisee? Who knows? But this publican sought a home now illuminate by the beams of God’s smiling face.
Justified Not merely pardoned; but held as enjoying the position of one just before God. The Epistle to the Romans is the expansion of this great thought.
Rather than the other The other was amply justified by and before himself; this man is justified by and before God.
Exalteth himself Our Lord here repeats one of those great formulas which expresses a fundamental law of the kingdom of God.
Here terminates the great series of the ( Peculiaria Lucae) Peculiar Contributions of Luke, or the LUKEAN SECTION. (See p. 101.) Thus far his path has been independent and alone; he is now joined by his brother Evangelists. Henceforth, though often furnishing peculiar paragraphs, he moves abreast with them.
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