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Ferusalem (1-4), his own and Timothy’s tntended vistts, and the invitation declined by Apollos (5-12). These are followed by an energetic final exhortation, into which is woven a commendation of Stephanas and other Cor. now with P. (13-18), and by the epistolary salutations which are full and animated, a word of severe warning being attached to his own affectionate greeting and autograph, signature (19-24).
§ 57. CoNCERNING THE COLLECTION, xvi. 1-4. During his Third Missionary Journey P. was collecting money for the relief of the Christian poor in Jerusalem. Two chaps. in the middle of 2 Cor. are devoted to this business, which, as it seems, had moved slowly in the interval between the two Epp. The collection had been set on foot some time ago in Galatia (1); in Macedonia it had been warmly taken up (2 Cor. viii. f.); from Acts xx. 4 we learn that “ Asians” also (from Ephesus and the neighbourhood) accompanied P. in the deputation which conveyed the Gentile offering to the mother Church. A little later, in writing to Rome (xv. 25-32), the Ap. refers to the collection, with great satisfaction, as completed. Every province of the Pauline mission appears to have aided in this. charity, which, while it relieved a dis- tressing need, was prompted also by Paul’s warm love for his people (Rom. ix. 3), and by his desire to knit together the Gentile and Jewish sections of the Church, and to prove to the latter the true faith and brotherhood of the con- verts from heathenism (2 Cor. ix. 11-14). P. had taken part in a similar relief sent from Antioch many years before (Acts xi. f.); andin the Conference of Jerus., when the direction of the Gentile mission was committed to him, the heads of the Judzan Church laid on him the injunc- tion to ‘“‘remember the poor” (Gal. ii. 1ο). Foreign Jews were accustomed, as- an act of piety, to replenish the poor- funds of the mother city. The Christian community of Jerus. suffered from chronic poverty. With little natural or com- mercial wealth, the city lived mainly upon: its religious character—on the attrac- tions of the Temple and the Feasts.
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