Sentences with phrase «publican as»

Quickly becoming a seasoned vet under the tutelage of Executive Chef Paul Kahan, Dennis Bernard returns to The Publican as Chef de Cuisine.

You get it in the teaching of Jesus where glory and the joy of angels happen around the morally dirty publican as he repents, and not around the purer pharisee who considers himself exalted above the dirt.

Not exact matches

When Jesus set in contrast a self - righteous Pharisee, saying to God, «I thank thee, that I am not as the rest of men,» and a contrite publican, praying, «God, be thou merciful to me a sinner,» (Luke 18:9 - 14) he was both summing up the best of his race's teaching on the true spirit of confessional prayer and indicating to his disciples the self - depreciation which must follow any such estimate of personal worth and possibility as he himself believed in.

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.

Luke 18:13 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..

He got along well with the despised customs officials (whom we probably translate inadequately as «tax collectors,» not to say «publicans») and the equally unwelcome centurion of the Roman army of occupation stationed at Capharnaum, who implored Jesus to heal his boy, pointing out that Jesus could do it by just giving a command without even having to profane himself by entering a gentile house.

I suppose they believe that by giving God credit for their * righteousness * they are giving Him glory; but the Pharisee in the parable gave God the credit for his «righteousness» when he prayed, * Lord, I thank thee that I am not as other men, especially that publican over there.

To enter the space in which this parable speaks requires that we hold Pharisee and publican together as dual aspects of a single alienating structure, represented here by the temple; to locate both kinds of responses within our own experience; and to transcend both by their reconciliation under the justifying love of God.

The scholar's task in exegesis is obviously to explicate the social roles of the two figures, explain that the hearers would at first identify with the Pharisee as the bearer of religious and social status, and then suffer shock and consternation at the wholly unexpected justification of the publican.

If we now find ourselves obliged to raise precisely this question once again and to think it over afresh, we must first of all make it clear that we are here taking the concept of good in its widest sense, that is to say, simply as the contrary of vicious, lawless and scandalous, as the opposite of public transgression of the moral law, as good in contrast to the publican and harlot.

Grocery wholesaler Metcash is in talks to set up joint ventures with publicans in Queensland and NSW as part of a strategy aimed at boosting its liquor distribution revenues.

Beer groups such as the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) and the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) are also supporting the campaign, along with retailers and publicans.

With close to 200 retail items, Publican Quality Meats provides goods that may be otherwise difficult to come by, as a well as the convenience of a single destination for those looking to fulfill a grocery list.

February 3 — A surburban English publican has won a crucial stage in her claim to screen unauthorised live Premiership football in a landmark case described as potentially the Bosman of broadcasting.

British publicans see cheap supermarket alcohol as the single greatest threat to their industry, and support government action to raise prices, according to a new Institute of Alcohol Studies (IAS) report.

However, Pubs Quizzed finds that publicans actually favour many of these measures, recognising cheap alcohol as a danger both to their business and to wider society.»

As a member of the Conservative Party, I support private property rights and surely publicans and patrons should be the ones who decide what legal activities are carried out in a local pub?

As crowds gathered outside O'Connell's Pub in Salthill to catch a glimpse of the singer, Saoirse was holed up in a makeshift green room in publican Frank O'Connor's house - alongside Love / Hate stars Peter Coonan and Laurance Kinlan.

The prime action of the piece is made up of Gleeson's interactions with locals; characters played by the greatest assembly of Irish and British acting talent since Intermission: Pat Shortt as a Buddhist publican; Dylan Moran as a socially estranged property developer; Chris O'Dowd as the butcher; Kelly Reilly as Gleeson's suicidal daughter from a pre-orders marriage; Aidan Gillen as an atheistic, nihilistic doctor.

Restaurants have quickly moved into the old Meatpacking District and established national acclaim, such as the Girl and the Goat, the Publican, Moto, and Next, Grant Achatz's follow - up restaurant to his award - winning Alinea.