Eoghan
Puritan Board Senior
In the NASV the suggestion is made that there is a distribution of food made on a daily basis. The use of the term "waiting tables" also has the idea of a counter - a brokers office for distributing money.
In either event it is a daily distribution of/for food. Does this alter how we percieve the line "Give us this day our daily bread?
How had the Apostles failed in distributing the money for the poor? Was it that there was a distribution by the different congregations Hebrew and Hellenistic? If so did the "retiral" of widows from the Diaspora to Jerusalem (Marshall's commentary p 126) would lead to a disproportionate burden on the Hellenistic congregation. Were they in effect asking for a more generous allocation?
Did the Apostles see to the needs of any widows or was it just those within their fellowships? Given the "rules" we have in the 1 Timothy 5 it is more probable that it was the latter.
If there was a disproportionate burden was it a complaint or a request? - is it always easy to tell the difference!
In either event it is a daily distribution of/for food. Does this alter how we percieve the line "Give us this day our daily bread?
How had the Apostles failed in distributing the money for the poor? Was it that there was a distribution by the different congregations Hebrew and Hellenistic? If so did the "retiral" of widows from the Diaspora to Jerusalem (Marshall's commentary p 126) would lead to a disproportionate burden on the Hellenistic congregation. Were they in effect asking for a more generous allocation?
Did the Apostles see to the needs of any widows or was it just those within their fellowships? Given the "rules" we have in the 1 Timothy 5 it is more probable that it was the latter.
If there was a disproportionate burden was it a complaint or a request? - is it always easy to tell the difference!
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