What are y'all doing tonight?! - Page 48

Theresa · #**471** 03-20-2007, 10:09 PM

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Originally Posted by rgcraig

I thought it mean he worked in public service - will be interesting to hear the answer.

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Originally Posted by Sherri

Wasn't a publican a tax collector? Maybe I just had that stuck in my brain; not sure it's right.

I've always thought that too - some kind of civil servant that was disliked...like a tax man - but I'm not sure. I didnt remember him being rich tho - and never realized he was a thief.....

seems like all we ever remember is he was short

I think I'll find one of those sites D4T recommended for bible study helps and see if I can find out something more specific

Theresa · #**472** 03-20-2007, 10:13 PM

Y'all were right...I found the answer

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one who farmed the taxes ( Luk 19:2) to be levied from a town or district, and thus undertook to pay to the supreme government a certain amount. In order to collect the taxes, the publicans employed subordinates ( 5:27; 15:1; 18:10), who, for their own ends, were often guilty of extortion and peculation. In New Testament times these taxes were paid to the Romans, and hence were regarded by the Jews as a very heavy burden, and hence also the collectors of taxes, who were frequently Jews, were hated, and were usually spoken of in very opprobrious terms. Jesus was accused of being a "friend of publicans and sinners" ( Luk 7:34).

rgcraig · #**473** 03-20-2007, 10:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Theresa

Y'all were right...I found the answer

I listened in SS class!!

Sherri · #**474** 03-20-2007, 10:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Theresa

Y'all were right...I found the answer

Maybe Renda and I learned something at JCM after all!!!!

rgcraig · #**475** 03-20-2007, 10:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Sherri

Maybe Renda and I learned something at JCM after all!!!!

Did we sing that song in chorale? Zaccheaus was a wee little man.

Sherri · #**476** 03-20-2007, 10:20 PM

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Originally Posted by rgcraig

Did we sing that song in chorale? Zaccheaus was a wee little man.

Possibly did it in solfeggio. I can still remember sitting around the dorm singing hymns in harmony in solfeggio! What good that ever did me, I'll never know!

Theresa · #**477** 03-20-2007, 10:24 PM

ROFL!!!!!!!

we didnt sing that in the chorale I was in...some years after y'all

*duck*

rgcraig · #**478** 03-20-2007, 10:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Theresa

ROFL!!!!!!!

we didnt sing that in the chorale I was in...some years after y'all

*duck*

We paved the road for you! You were probably singing that song in the toddlers class while we were at JCM!

Sherri · #**479** 03-20-2007, 10:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Theresa

ROFL!!!!!!!

we didnt sing that in the chorale I was in...some years after y'all

*duck*

Too bad for you -- you didn't get to wear the 1975 black and white swirly double knit dress!! Or the 1976 bicentennial dress - navy double knit with red & white top stitching with a little US flag scarf. Those were the days of high fashion, yes siree!!

Theresa · #**480** 03-20-2007, 10:34 PM

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Originally Posted by rgcraig

We paved the road for you! You were probably singing that song in the toddlers class while we were at JCM!

I was...7, 8 when y'all were at JCM - I was around then, the Farm I mean, but I was a smidge older than toddler.

not much tho

ROFL

oh - speaking of the farm..

there were these girls that had their room decorated on the outside with poster board and stuff that made their room look like a candy store. I'm not sure if we were there b/c of an open house, or there to pick up Brenda...but I've never forgotten that.....