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Parable 7
The Pharisee and the Tax Collector
(Luke 18:9-14)
At the top, the eye of God looks down.
The tax collector stands looking down in the temple, beats his breast, and prays, "God, have mercy on me, a sinner."
Below His feet is a purse, symbolic of his profession as a tax collector.
Below the purse is an orchid, the symbol of vanity and pride, the symbol of the Pharisee.
The Pharisee stands up and prays to himself, "God, I thank you that I am not like other men--robbers, evildoers, adulterers--or even like this tax collector." NIV Bible
Below the Pharisee is a broken Star of David.
At the bottom is a hand holding a scourge symbolic of God's displeasure with the Pharisee.
[Jesus says, "I tell you that this man (the tax collector), rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."] NIV Bible
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