revenue-collecting

Updated: May 20, 2025

If there was a Zacchæus whose honesty and generosity had given way under the faulty system of revenue-collecting then in vogue, Jesus considered Himself involved in his moral ruin and obliged to do what He could to restore him: "I must abide at thy house."

Henry Sloane Coffin - Some Christian Convictions: A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking