And after these things he went out, and saw a farmer of the taxes, named Levi, sitting at the custom-house: and he said unto him, Follow me.

Two men went up to the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, the other a tax-farmer.

And there was a person whose name was Zaccheus, and he was a principal farmer of the taxes, and the man was rich.

THE former treatise, Theophilus, I composed, concerning all things which Jesus began both to do and to teach,

Now to him that is able to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, agreeable to the revelation of the mystery; which was concealed from all former ages,

For ye have heard of my former manner of life, when I professed Judaism, that in the most outrageous manner I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:

that ye put off respecting your former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful passions;

incurring censure, for having violated their former engagement.

Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. See, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth, in patient expectation for it, till it receives the former and the latter rain.

as obedient children, not conformed to the former passions of the days of your ignorance:

But he that hath no possession of these things, is blind, dim-sighted, sinking into oblivion of his purification from the sins of his former days.

And God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more; nor shall mourning, nor crying, nor toil be any more: because the former things are passed away.