collection for Church of Jerusalem
- collection for Church of Jerusalem
In writing to the Christians in
Corinth (
1 Cor. 16:1–2) Paul requests that a collection should be taken every week in support of his fund for the mother Church in Jerusalem, as he had urged in
Galatia. He could also report a good response from
Macedonia (
2 Cor. 8:3–5). Paul spent much time and effort in organizing the collection, and the cost of taking it, with companions, must have eaten into the total to such an extent that evidently suspicions were aroused that he was lining his own pocket with some of it (
2 Cor. 12:14–18). Yet the importance of the gesture was enormous to Paul: it was a necessary act of charity (
Rom. 15:28) to reconcile the two wings (Jewish and Gentile) of the Church. Maybe Paul also had in mind
OT predictions of ‘many nations’ coming to the mountain of the Lord in Jerusalem (
Mic. 4:2). Perhaps he hoped too that such a
gift [[➝ gifts]] to the ‘so-called pillars’ of the mother Church (
Gal. 2:1) would incline them to a more favourable view of his work; but we never hear how they reacted, or even whether they ever received the collection as they had apparently done in 46
CE (
Acts 11:30).
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