Luke 3:13

And he said unto them,.... Not by advising them to quit their employments, as if it was a thing unlawful to impose pay, and collect taxes, but by directing them to perform their office aright:

exact…

Exact - Demand, or take, no more. Than that which is appointed - That is, by the government. John does not condemn the office, or say that the employment should be forsaken. Though it was hated by the…

John's baptism introducing a new dispensation, it was requisite that we should have a particular account of it. Glorious things were said of John, what a distinguished favourite of Heaven he should…

Exact no more This was their habitual sin, and later historians often allude to the immodestia(i. e. the extravagant greed) of the publicans and their cruel exactions (Caes. Bell. Civ.iii. 32). The…