self-understanding of the church which Paul must have transmitted to his congregations.”57 However, any gathering of people in the Greco-Roman world could have been called an “assembly” or (ἐκκλησία).58 Paul may or may not have had in mind the eschatological manifestation of the OT assemblies of Israel. Note the question-begging with Ciampa’s “clear” and “must have.” What some consider “must have” been the case, other scholars will seriously doubt.59 For that matter, scholars working in the area