{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/sco/luk018.htm","path":"bib/cmt/sco/luk018.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/sco/luk018.htm","text":"The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917]\nfaith\nThe reference is not to personal faith, but to belief in the whole body of revealed truth.\nCompare (Rom 1:5); (Co1 16:13); (Co2 13:5); (Col 1:23); (Col 2:7); (Tit 1:13); (Jde 1:3).\nSee \"Apostasy,\" above, in margin reference of (Luk 18:8).\n(See Scofield) - (Ti2 3:1).\nSon of man\n(See Scofield) - (Mat 8:20).\nrighteous\n(See Scofield) - (Rom 10:3).\nmerciful\nGreek, \"hilaskomai\", used in the Septuagint and New Testament in connection with the mercy-seat (Exo 25:17); (Exo 25:18); (Exo 25:21); (Heb 9:5). As an instructed Jew, the publican is thinking, not of mere mercy, but of the blood-sprinkled mercy seat.\n(See Scofield) - (Lev 16:5).\n\"Propitiation,\"\n(See Scofield) - (Rom 3:25).\nHis prayer might be paraphrased, \"Be toward me as thou are when thou lookest upon the atoning blood.\" The Bible knows nothing of divine forgiveness apart from sacrifice.\n(See Scofield) - (Mat 26:28).\nThat is, propitiated.\nsinner\nSin\n(See Scofield) - (Rom 3:23).\nsaved\n(See Scofield) - (Rom 1:16).\nblind man\n(See Scofield) - (Mat 20:30).","title":"The Scofield Bible Commentary: Luke: Luke Chapter 18","type":"page"}