tax-collector

Zacchaeus is a tax-collector -- someone who works for the occupying power Rome, and who uses his power to defraud his neighbors cf.

Rev. Margaret Aymer, Ph. D.: On Minas, Occupations And Tony Perkins Rev. Margaret Aymer 2011

We discover, for example, that when a tax-collector a few years earlier was killed in Tarahumara territory, Don Porfirio sent in the Mexican army to essentially massacre the village.

Drums in the Hills by Frank O. Dolezal and Kathryn Dolezal Tyler 2009

We discover, for example, that when a tax-collector a few years earlier was killed in Tarahumara territory, Don Porfirio sent in the Mexican army to essentially massacre the village.

Drums in the Hills by Frank O. Dolezal and Kathryn Dolezal Tyler 2009

Zacchaeus is a tax-collector -- someone who works for the occupying power Rome, and who uses his power to defraud his neighbors cf.

Rev. Margaret Aymer, Ph. D.: On Minas, Occupations And Tony Perkins Rev. Margaret Aymer 2011

That a former tax-collector turned religious zealot was against temple prostitution over a thousand years ago?

Think Progress » Report: States passed more pro-LGBT bills in 2009 than in the previous two years combined. 2010

Ultimately, they believed, the buying and selling of sexual services would become a freely undertaken transaction, in which the state would only be involved as a regulator and tax-collector.

The oldest conundrum « Bound, Not Gagged 2008

But then, if Bill Gates were Scrooge McDuck, Mombie would be wearing a tie, and be a tax-collector.

Why Scrooge McDuck is better than Bill Gates Heather McDougal 2007

A prisoner, a sheep-herder, a tax-collector, a handful of fishermen, a doctor, and a few ambitious corporate climbers—all chosen, all taught, all sent to do one thing: speak the Living Word of God in spirit and in truth so that the heirs of the Father might know that their inheritance is at hand.

Archive 2009-07-12 2009

A prisoner, a sheep-herder, a tax-collector, a handful of fishermen, a doctor, and a few ambitious corporate climbers—all chosen, all taught, all sent to do one thing: speak the Living Word of God in spirit and in truth so that the heirs of the Father might know that their inheritance is at hand.

Where's our will; where's our way? 2009

But then, if Bill Gates were Scrooge McDuck, Mombie would be wearing a tie, and be a tax-collector.

Archive 2007-05-01 Heather McDougal 2007