(Gk. hilaskomai) Strong’s #2433 Luke 18:13, “But the tax collector, [merely] standing at a distance, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but kept striking his breast, saying, O God, be favorable (be gracious, BE MERCIFUL) to me, the especially wicked sinner that I am!” (AMPC) The Greek word means ‘to be propitious’…