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3:6. Silver and gold. It may be that the silver and gold that was over the other gates leading to the temple court was the context for Peter’s denial of monetary funds, but this was also a common expression in contrasts of virtue in the Hellenistic world. Plutarch, for instance, writes that “money cannot buy peace of mind, greatness of spirit, serenity, confidence, and self-sufficiency. Having wealth is not the same as being superior to it, nor is possessing luxuries the same as feeling no need of
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