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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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although it perhaps made <strong>the</strong> tax-ga<strong>the</strong>rers only<br />

more unpopular, as being <strong>the</strong> direct <strong>of</strong>ficials <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

hea<strong>the</strong>n power. This also exfd&ins how, if <strong>the</strong><br />

Mishnah forbids ^ even ike changing <strong>of</strong> money<br />

ftom tibia »b.kmum guilt-laden chest <strong>of</strong> a Mokhes^<br />

or eiotiamsr, <strong>the</strong> Oemara^ addsi tihat •bsimx. such<br />

apfdied to custom-house <strong>of</strong>ficers who ei<strong>the</strong>r did<br />

not keisp to <strong>the</strong> ^^'* tax appointed by <strong>the</strong><br />

Gbvemtnent, or indeed to any fixed tax, <strong>and</strong> to<br />

those who appointed <strong>the</strong>mselves to such <strong>of</strong>fioe^tiiat<br />

is, as we take it, who would volunteer for <strong>the</strong><br />

service, in <strong>the</strong> hope <strong>of</strong> making pr<strong>of</strong>it on <strong>the</strong>ir own<br />

account. An instance is, however, related <strong>of</strong> a<br />

OMai, or tax-ga<strong>the</strong>rer, beooming a celebrated<br />

Rabbi, though <strong>the</strong> taint <strong>of</strong> his former calling<br />

deterred <strong>the</strong> more rigid <strong>of</strong> his colleagues fyom<br />

intoN course with him.^ On hea<strong>the</strong>n feast days tdl<br />

was remitted to those «Bakhoc who came to <strong>the</strong><br />

festival.* Sometimes Una was slso done from<br />

kind-* , ^^^ zv. ness.' <strong>The</strong> following story may<br />

serve as a final illustration <strong>of</strong> th6 ^'* popular<br />

notions, alike about publicans <strong>and</strong> about <strong>the</strong> merit

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