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Luk 19:2. Ἀρχιτελώνης, a chief among the publicans) A person very high in position among people of his own class; and one whose example, in being converted, it is probable that many followed.-πλούσιος, rich) Through this rich man’s example the evil[204] is remedied, which another rich man had caused by his example: ch. Luk 18:23.
[204] The confusion of ideas, whereby many might think riches presented an insuperable barrier to entrance into heaven: see ch. Luk 18:26-27. Therefore Beng. uses the expression turbârat in the following clause: “Quod exemplum suo turbârat dives alius.”-E. and T.