Paul received a rich gift from the Philippians, but through ten verses of discussing it with them, he doesn’t thank them for it. Why? To understand his reason and how he was able to learn contentment, we need to understand patronage in Greco-Roman culture. One of the central concepts upon which the Greco-Roman culture was built was patronage. Social relationships were about who you knew and…

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