Like & Unlike the Pharisee & the Publican

Here is an interesting commentary on the Lord's parable of the Pharisee and the Publican, or rather an application from it in the form of a prayer, from the Orthodox Vespers service of Tuesday in the Fourth Week of Lent:

I have surpassed the Publican in my transgressions, yet I do not vie with him in his repentance; I have not gained the virtue of the Pharisee, yet I imitate his self-conceit. O Christ my God, in Thy supreme humility Thou hast upon the Cross destroyed the devil's arrogance; make me a stranger to the past sins of the Publican and to the great foolishness of the Pharisee; establish in my soul the good that each of them possessed, and save me.