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  • From: pmh15 AT cam.ac.uk (Peter M. Head)
  • To: "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: How did Paul take the collection to Jerusalem?
  • Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 10:06:07 +0000


1 Cor 16.3f hardly seems to suggest or require any particularly complicated
arrangements for transporting the collection: it will be taken by
representatives of the Corinthian congregation, along with Paul. 2 Cor 8.18
speaks of a particular administrator of the collection. A group of such
people from the various Pauline congregations (such as is preserved in Acts
20.4) would have safeguarded the cash transfer, protected Paul's
reputation, and functioned as a symbolic expression of the offering of the
Gentiles.

There is a fair bit of info in the Oxford Classical Dict on "Banks',
"Coinage", "Finance", "Credit" etc.; but it hardly seems to me that the
likely amount of the collection would require much more than a purse or two
of gold coins.

Peter


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