witness becomes bolder and more urgent. Indeed, unbelievers coming in may confess that ‘God is really among you’.72 Having considered our duty to each other as the household of God, and to God as his dwelling-place, we come to our duty to the truth as its pillar and foundation. The hedraiōma of a building is its mainstay. It may refer either to its foundation or to a buttress or bulwark which supports it. In either case the hedraiōma stabilizes the building.