Synonyms: responsibility, obligation, commitment, obedience, allegiance, loyalty, faithfulness, fidelity, respect, deference, reverence, homage, job, task, chore, assignment, commission, mission, function, charge, part, place, role, concern, requirement, tax, levy, tariff, excise, toll, fee, imposition, impost, exaction, tithe, payment, rate
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Understanding Series
Craig A. Evans
... (see note on 10:30 above). 19:2 chief tax collector: Fitzmyer (p. 469) prefers to use the title “toll collector,” since these people collect “indirect taxes (tolls, tariffs, imposts, and customs).” But for our purposes the traditional designation will serve. The chief tax collector was one who collected these tolls and tariffs and had several agents under his authority. “Since the [chief tax collector] usually had to pay the expected revenue to the Romans in advance and then seek to recoup ...
2. Tyre, Sidon—and Israel
Ezekiel 26:1-21, Ezekiel 27:1-36, Ezekiel 28:1-19, Ezekiel 28:20-26
Understanding Series
Steven Tuell
... that she lies in ruins I will prosper” (v. 2). The description of Jerusalem as “the gate to the nations,” Marvin Sweeney observes, “indicates Judah’s role in controlling inland trade routes” (“Notes,” p. 1091). No longer having to pay tariffs to Jerusalem would mean higher profits for the Tyrian merchants. However, it is odd that anyone would use such an expression to describe Jerusalem in its waning days under Zedekiah. Surely this title suggests more prosperous and influential times under ...
Teach the Text
Grant R. Osborne
... . sitting at the tax collector’s booth. Levi had bid for and received a seat at the customs booth outside Capernaum (perhaps on the Via Maris, the main trade route that passed by the city) and collected the indirect taxes on trade goods, tariffs, and so on for Herod Antipas (not the direct or imperial tax mentioned in 12:14). Such people were despised because they consorted with the Romans and were allowed to add whatever surcharge they wished, usually an exorbitant, dishonest amount. According to Jewish ...
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