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This volume of the Augsburg Commentary on the New Testament contains commentaries on Galatians, Philippians, Philemon, and 1 Thessalonians. Galatians was written in the heat of controversy. Paul believed the Gospel to be under a deadly attack that would destroy the churches he had founded and ultimately destroy the Gospel itself. He used all the arguments at his command to counteract that...

sense in 1 Cor. 1:9 and 2 Cor. 13:13. But all other occurrences of the verb in Paul imply the sharing of money or other tangible goods (e.g., Rom. 12:13; 15:27; Phil. 4:15). Thus the command here probably urges care for the physical needs of the teacher of the word‚104 that is, the word of God (cf. 1 Thess. 1:6; 2:13; Phil. 1:14). The next three verses attach directly to v. 6.105 Paul unites the picture of sowing and reaping with the flesh/spirit antithesis of 5:16–25 to give an eschatological warning
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