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Background becomes foreground in Moyer Hubbard’s creative introduction to the social and historical setting of the Apostle Paul’s letters to the churches in Asia Minor and Europe. Hubbard begins each major section with a brief narrative that features a fictional character in one of the era’s great cities. He elaborates on the various cultural aspects of the setting portrayed in the vignettes,...

Paul and Timothy are attempting to deal with in Ephesus reflects a concrete instantiation of the bleak economic reality of the first-century urban milieu and illustrates how the organizational resources of the early church were brought to bear on this issue. As we learn from 1 Tim 5, the familial ethos of the Jesus movement necessitated extending care to those who had lost all earthy familial relations. HONOR WIDOWS WHO ARE TRULY IN NEED. BUT IF A WIDOW HAS CHILDREN OR GRANDCHILDREN, THESE SHOULD
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