“Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only.”
And you Philippians know also that in the early days of my ministry, when I left Macedonia, no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you alone — Paul recalls the Philippians' early partnership (en archē tou euangeliou, in the beginning of the gospel): when he left Macedonia (moving to Thessalonica and Corinth), they alone supported him. 'Giving and receiving' (dosis kai lepsis) frames economics as exchange, but spiritual: they gave, Christ receives.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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