Sentences with phrase «as the tax collector for»

Now a new study from Cambridge University based on his writings suggests Saint Patrick was not brought to Ireland as a slave, as the legend has it, but that in fact he may actually have sold slaves his family owned to pay his way to Ireland - in order to avoid a job as a tax collector for the Roman empire.

Instead, he worked as a tax collector for the Catholic Church and as a village medic.

The municipality acts as the tax collector for other agencies listed below.

Not exact matches

In April the Office of the Treasurer and Tax Collector in San Francisco announced it had notified 37,000 people identified as drivers for transportation network companies, or TNCs, of a new effort to enforce the requirements.

The tax collector (a euphemism for taxpayers) suffers as investors across the economic spectrum borrow funds so as to leverage a higher return on equity.

As one example, DelBello points out that huge nationwide institutions like banks service millions of loans through centralized computer systems, yet we need a separate tax assessor, tax collector, and various clerks and support staff for every town.

He fights with every religious leader of his day (they are representives of God), hangs out with some of the lowest people in society (drunks, prostitutes, tax collectors), healed people on the sabbath (they see this as against the law), healed lepers (also against the law), accepts some Gentiles and heals them (outside his actual mission), died for all of «humanity», etc..

The common people accepted as a matter of course the control of these political and religious groups, save for chronic grumblings against those who touched their pocketbooks most directly, the hated publicans or tax - collectors.

Further evidence for the existence of table - fellowship with «tax collectors and sinners» as a feature of the ministry of Jesus is the role played by communal meals in earliest Christianity (E. Lohmeyer, Lord of the Temple [ET by Stewart Todd of Kultus und Evangelism (1942); Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1961], pp. 79ff, discusses the central role of table - fellowship in the ministry of Jesus, but he is particularly concerned with the development towards the Last Supper, which he sees as historical, rather than with the relationship between this table - fellowship and the cross, on the one hand, and the communal meals of early Christianity on the other.)

In those days, sinners fell into five basic categories: people who did dirty things for a living (such as pig farmers and tax collectors), people who did immoral things (such as liars and adulterers), people who did not keep the law up to the standards of the religious authorities (such as you and me), Samaritans and gentiles.

The methods of tax collecting in those days gave a good deal of opportunity for graft, and tax collectors as a group were generally disliked.

Matthew regards the parable as an illustration of the «last, first: first, last» principle, but we must assume that it was originally spoken in a context in which Jesus was being attacked for his attitude to «tax collectors and sinners», with all that this implied to many of his contemporaries.

Jesus could have been blaspheming, his exorcisms could be collusion with evil forces, and what his opponents, no doubt, regarded as the indiscriminate nature of both the forgiveness (including tax collectors and sinners) and the healings (Samaritan leper) could be an argument against these aspects of his ministry, but for faith both are a manifestation of the kingly activity of God.

But if the early church could survive — and in fact, thrive amidst persecution — when it included both Jews and Gentiles, zealots and tax collectors, slaves and owners, men and women, those in support of circumcision and those against it, those staunchly opposed to eating food that had been sacrificed to idols and those who felt it necessary, then I think modern American Christianity can survive when it includes democrats and republicans, biblical literalists and biblical non-literalists, Calvinists and Arminians... so long as we're not rooting for one another's demise.

He is pictured as himself a story - teller in whose stories there is equally vivid harmonizing of contrasts: a father embracing a prodigal son, a tax collector praying for forgiveness; a heretic showing a compassion far surpassing that of the orthodox, an employer rewarding laggards with the same wages as those who have worked a full day.

For Peter's mother - in - law, it was release from a fever; for the tax collector, it was acceptance as a human being; for the 5,000 it was bread; for the woman taken in adultery, it was forgiveness and the word to «go and sin no moFor Peter's mother - in - law, it was release from a fever; for the tax collector, it was acceptance as a human being; for the 5,000 it was bread; for the woman taken in adultery, it was forgiveness and the word to «go and sin no mofor the tax collector, it was acceptance as a human being; for the 5,000 it was bread; for the woman taken in adultery, it was forgiveness and the word to «go and sin no mofor the 5,000 it was bread; for the woman taken in adultery, it was forgiveness and the word to «go and sin no mofor the woman taken in adultery, it was forgiveness and the word to «go and sin no more.

The local tax collectors, who obtained the concession by bidding for it, and had to exact for the chief tax collector as much as possible in indirect taxes — e.g., tolls on imported goods — were indeed Jews, but because of their dishonorable practices, and no doubt also because of their subservience to an alien government, they were so hated and despised that they were not counted as members of the Jewish community, and all intercourse with them was avoided.

Most banks have been sending these codes to tax collectors electronically and directly for many years but state law requires assessors to serve as a «middle - man» and continue spending countless hours on an unnecessary task.

On balance, the book is a friendly, down - to - earth introduction to physics suitable for stockbrokers, estate agents, tax collectors, train spotters — as well as poets.

The researchers point to China's Mandarin system, a method of screening individuals for positions as tax collectors and other government administrators.

Fulfilling his troth, Robin is convinced by the elder Loxley, Sir Walter (Max von Sydow, hammy), to take the dead prodigal's place as lord of the manor and husband of the distinctly displeased Marion in order to prevent the baronial lands from being seized by the grasping tax collectors of the newly crowned King John (Oscar Isaac, mincingly monotonous), whose chief henchman, Sir Godfrey (Mark Strong, bald), is playing a double game as both John's right arm and a stalking horse for a French invasion of England.

The pack includes: * Zacchaeus the Tax Collector story with activity * Easter Story with activity * Hans Christian Andersson (secular) story of the Snowdrop - can be used as a play script * New life powerpoint to show animals and plants at this time of year / growth / new starts in real life * New life for babies activity worksheet - what gifts would you give?

This is not a terrible thing for the tax collector (at least in theory) because long term the tax revenue should still be greater (so in effect the tax collector is invested as well).

Once a student loan is in default, that is when debt collectors will start being more aggressive with collection efforts and threaten to do things such as garnish your wages, intercept your tax refund or possibly even sue you (for private student loans) for not making your student loan payments.

Doberman Pinschers were first developed as protection for tax collectors, and they retain their protective instincts and intuitive sense about who is a friend and who is not.

Though I do wish the game gave you the option to act as tax collector and shake down your residents for the bells needed to finish a stone bridge that costs more than my house.

The Americans for the Arts Action Fund will use the funds to educate the US Congress and other decision makers about the value of the arts and arts education to all Americans in every part of our nation and urge them to fully fund the NEA for fiscal year 2018, plus all the other federal cultural agencies and efforts such as the Artist Museum Partnership Act which would allow artists the same tax benefits for donations of their own art as a collector currently gets when gifting a similar work to a museum or educational institution.»

In light of the IRS's unique role as the federal revenue collector, the National Taxpayer Advocate recommends that Congress develop new budget procedures designed to fund the IRS at a level that will enable it to meet taxpayer needs and maximize tax compliance, with due regard for protecting taxpayer rights and minimizing taxpayer burden.