Publicans
group · 3 works · 5 mentions · 7 anchored passages
publicans · gentiles · heathen · heathen sinners · heathens · tax-collectors · the heathen · the nations · the publicans
in the texts
De Pudicitia
Non-Jewish, non-Christian sinners, argued to be the parables' true subject.
There provoked, as I suppose, the fact that the Pharisees, indignant, were muttering that the Lord admitted publicans and heathen sinners and shared food with them.
Or, if anyone doubts that the publicans among the Jews were heathens — the Jews having been seized long since by the hand of Pompey and Lucullus — let him read Deuteronomy:
When first the Gospel thundered and shook the old things, so that it was disputed concerning the standing of the law, whether or not it was to be retained, the apostles send forth this first rule, on the authority of the Holy Spirit, to those who had begun to be chosen out from the nations:
De Fuga in Persecutione
Non-Christian outsiders feared as potential informers or persecutors of gathering Christians.
"Since we assemble in a disorderly way, and assemble all together, and many of us run together into the church, we are inquired after by the heathen, and we fear lest the heathen be disturbed.
Law in a Free State
Licensed liquor sellers targeted by the street orator's demand for license revocation.
He was explaining that many years ago Jesus died to save sinners like us, and therefore the best thing we could do was to deprive the publicans of their licenses without compensation.