Another point to be noted about the call of St Matthew is this: The choice of a publican was a practical proof to the other disciples, as it is to the Church for ever, that Christ is in no way a respecter of persons.
However justly the publican might have striven to act, it would be taken for granted that he was endeavouring to fleece those who came into his hands; and a man soon becomes what people about him will have it that he is.
The last time it was used was in 1813, when a publican was put in it for aiding the escape of General Phillippon, a French prisoner of war, who had been brought to this old Sussex town.
He laughed to scorn the strange stories which alarmed the countryside, and laid a wager with the publican that he would visit at midnight the gibbet.
A publicanhad paid him four and threepence, and he had taken two and tenpence elsewhere.
But other people were shocked when they saw a publican with Jesus, and tongues began to wag.
He had been a publican once, and no one except Jesus was ready to give him a second chance.
The same publican afterward let a fellow-wayfarer and myself a sick horse that proved unfit to travel when we were well upon our journey.
Arthur Sandeyn, who was the first publican in Marblehead, was allowed to keep an ordinary there in 1640.
Nay, only the other day we saw a procession headed by the worthy village publican carrying the cross, and a manful and decorous crossbearer he proved himself.
What is demanded is a wholesome, clean and pleasant place in which to have something to eat and drink without being told by anyone, publican or teetotaller, what form the refreshment shall take.
Secondly, there is a serious temptation offered to the publican to recoup the high expenditure on his licence by inducing his customers to drink.
At Mitcham, nursery alike of vegetation and of Surrey cricket, every publican is a cricketer of repute.
Scarcely less eminent in his way was Ned Ward, the "Publican Poet," immortalised in the "Dunciad.
Why the publican should be penalised at so high a rate, when the grocer, whose annual sales often exceed those of all the public-houses in the district combined, is let off with a nominal sum, passes all comprehension.
The publicanhad not pegged out an inch of moral claim, but he had an overwhelming sense of the untrodden universe.
It is what Matthew the publican was like when the Lord changed his hard heart into a land of springs.
The Master sets the Pharisee and publicanin contrast, and His judgment goes against the man who has made some progress in moral attainments, and favours the man who has no victories to show, but only a hunger for victory.
An epicurean publican at Yapton, Arundel, has a more gastronomic combination, viz.
The CROWN AND MITRE, indicative of royalty and the church, is the sign of a High Church publican at Taunton; and the BIBLE AND CROWN has for more than a century and a half been the sign of Rivingtons the publishers.
A publican on the Fulham Road has put up the sign of the Stag, and added to this on the tympanum: "Rex in regno suo non habet parem," the application of which is best known to mine host himself.
The oddity of the combination in all probability pleased a publican who had heard the song, and adopted it forthwith as his sign, leaving the arrangement of the objects to the taste of the sign-painter.
The Clergyman mused a little, and then, approaching Walter, offered his services in the stead of the Publican in so frank and cordial a manner, that Walter at once accepted them.
This loquacious publican soon gave him sketches of all the characters in the county; and, among others, described that of his next neighbour, Commodore Trunnion, which was altogether singular and odd.
One or two rather large holes in the cinders were made, as the publican explained, by Crockett, in practicing getting off his mark.
When he studies the passage he will soon see that what the Publican did was simply to take the sinner’s place before God and cry for mercy and that as soon as he did this he was “justified” or forgiven.
Then ask him, “What did the Publican do that the Pharisee did not do, that brought him the forgiveness of his sins while the Pharisee went out of the Temple unforgiven?
The publican stood a foot back from the counter and expanded his chest with pride at the thought of being trusted by the great little man with the secret of the strange winder of two nights ago.
On the other hand, the publican had taken the right direction; he might be still very far from a thorough knowledge of God; but his ideas of God, however imperfect, were right as far as they went.
Hitherto, notwithstanding Felix drank so little ale, the publican treated him with high civility.
And did the publican do all this at his own expense?
The publican at Dead Camel, station managers, professional shearers, even one or two solvent squatters and promising cockatoos, tried their luck in vain.
He gave that publicannearly as good a thrashing as he deserved.
Dave and the publican bundled in there and shut the door--the publican cursing Dave and calling him a crimson fool, in hurried tones, and wanting to know what the hell he came here for.
It was a desperate fight: the publican was a big man, and a bit of a fighting man; but Ned was one of those quiet, simple-minded chaps who will carry a thing through to death when they make up their minds.
The publican knew the Boss and did all he could for him--put him in the best room and wired for another doctor.
The publican was holding his wife tight and begging her between her squawks, to 'hold up for my sake, Mary, or I'll lam the life out of ye.
Not they, you may be very sure; and as soon as the publican has squeezed them dry, out they go, neck and crop.
Every publican is bound by law to keep a lamp burning outside his house every dark night; and these lamps light the street very creditably.
Dan found Dad, with his shirt off, at a pub on the main road, wanting to fight the publican for a hundred pounds, but could n't persuade him to come home.
Sweeney was the publican at Kangaroo Creek, with a reputation for curing snake-bite.
I told how I had obtained the assistance of the publican Warr, and described how we had found the body of the murdered man.
Yours has been a strange life," said the publican at last, in order to obtain more details of the stranger and his motive for inquiring after the people at the Hall.
What do you think such a fellow as Redway could discover, except perhaps it were a mug of beer hidden by a publican after closing-time?
This pastime is included in the statute above mentioned relating to billiards, and the same penalty is imposed upon the publicanwho keeps a table in his house for the purpose of playing.
In them times colored preachers so 'furiate de women, dat they would put on breeches and vote de 'Publican radical ticket.
But they was cussed by marster, when after de war they took up wid de 'publican party.
Towards dawn, next morning, the publican awoke in an ominous panic, and aroused his wife to listen to a loud knocking, and a clamor of voices at their door.
He told them in so many words, "The publican and the harlot will enter the kingdom of God before you.
Here it must be observed, that though our Saviour was pleased to say, that the Publican went down to his House justified rather than the Pharisee, yet he by no Means sets either of them as a Pattern for our Example.
The Publican on the other Hand did not so much as lift up his Eyes to Heaven, but smote his Breast, and said, God be merciful to me a sinner.
One case which personally came to my notice was that of a poor man and his wife and family who were turned out on to the road with all their furniture and a friendly publican took them in.
The man had a wife and five children, and a friendly publican let him have the use of his clubroom in which to live until he could find another house.
I told him of my suspicions that the publican Bramberger was a spy.
We must keep a wary eye upon that publican Bramberger, Jacox," he whispered when we were alone together in my bedroom.
He had ordered a glass of beer in order to give himself a status in the house, and the publican would not let him pay for it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "publican" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
