Stood] i.e. placed himself conspicuously in the attitude of prayer: see on Matthew 6:5. God, I thank thee] The words of the Pharisee can hardly be called a prayer. He asks for nothing, and feels his need of nothing. The Pharisee did, indeed, acknowledge that his virtues were derived from God, but he took all the merit of them to himself, and boasted of them before God and man.

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