publican

• “I desired him: to prepare himself for a happier life, to acknowledge that he was a sinner, and to repent of his faults: and, happening to mention the publican, who acknowledged that he was a sinner, and asked God's mercy; he answered, '_I am that publican_.”

  The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands

• “Nothing could further emphasize the sympathy of Jesus than his calling a publican to be his close companion and friend.”

  The Gospel of Luke, An Exposition

• “Feeling bound to the monk by the service he had already done him, Brotteaux stepped up to him and made himself known as the publican who had stood beside him among the common herd, one day of great scarcity, and asked him if he could not be of some use to him.”

  Dieux ont soif. English

• “January 11th, 2010 at 1: 01 pm tombaker says: unless you’re an OK resident, there’s really not much to be done about him, other than press the National Committee to cut his funding or find a better candidate down there. in any event, handing his seat back to some cRo-publican is never going to amount to a good idea.”

  Think Progress » Blue Dog Dem Rep. Boren: Democratic losses in November would be a ‘good thing for Oklahoma and for me.’

• “We do not see that, moreover, idealizing the category of prostitute, we also idealize that of publican, which is a category that always accompanies it in the Gospel.”

  Zenit: Fr. Cantalamessa's Gospel Commentary for 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time

• “Very understandably, because a publican was a kind of Quisling, he was held in contempt by his fellow men; yet he knew at the same time that he had the power and legal authority of the Roman government behind him.”

  The Twelve: Matthew

• “Saint Matthew, one of the twelve Apostles, who from being a publican, that is, a taxgatherer, was called by our Saviour to the Apostleship: in that profession his name is Levi.”

  The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete

• “Their publican is the druggist, where they buy opium for themselves and Godfrey's cordial, a preparation from laudanum, for their children.”

  Recent Developments in European Thought

• “Irishman is a knowing scoundrel, the publican is a trifle more knowledgable than the customer, whose brains are besodden.”

  The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent

• “If they gave tick, they would never recover the money, and if every Irishman is a knowing scoundrel, the publican is a trifle more knowledgable than the customer, whose brains are besodden.”

  The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent

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