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...Whittaker Chambers: a new type of publican-a TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR PUBLICAN . . . May I express my feeling of nausea at your picturing Mr. Chambers cloaked in Biblical raiment...
...Your analogy concerning Whittaker Chambers and the publican is not only inconsistent but ludicrous. This "humble" publican has performed no ablution, but rather has come out of the temple to sell his sins. Whittaker Chambers is an emotional, not a rational man. This is shown from his grasp of "faiths," each diametrically opposed. He has substituted one faith for the other and in his processing has disregarded rationality...
...went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican . . . And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other...
Throughout his two trials for perjury. Hiss kept saying that he had not sinned. Chambers kept confessing sins. Yet both juries voted (the first 8 to 4, the second 12 to 0) that the Pharisee was a whited sepulcher, that the publican spoke the truth...
...qualified conservatism ... It is no longer a matter of crucial importance to know whether or not Moses wrote the Pentateuch in its present form, whether or not Isaiah of Jerusalem was responsible for all the chapters of the book which bears his name, whether or not Matthew the publican composed the first canonical gospel...