and wealth. It does not mean, however, that there is no connection between blessings in the heavenly dimension and earthly life. Paul stresses this connection in the second half of the letter, where the spiritual blessings transform how one interacts with members of the household and church body, how one behaves, and how one develops the proper perspective on possessions. There does not appear to be any particular emphasis by the use of the compound form of the word (prefixed with the preposition
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