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Romans 15.26: Make a Contribution or Establish Fellowship?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

G. W. Peterman
G. W. Peterman
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New Testament Studies , Volume 40 , Issue 3 , July 1994 , pp. 457 - 463
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1 E.g., Michel, O., Der Brief an die Römer (Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 5., bearbeitete Auflage, 1977) 461, 464Google Scholar n. 9; Cranfield, C. E. B., A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1979) 772Google Scholar; Dunn, J. D. G., Romans 9–16 (Dallas: Word, 1988) 875.Google Scholar

2 Seesemann, H., Der Begriff ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΑ im Neuen Testament (Gieβen: Alfred Töpelmann, 1933) 29Google Scholar. Seesemann is followed by Hauck, F., ‘κοινός κτλ.’, TWNT 3 (1938) 809 n. 738Google Scholar; and Nickle, K. P., The Collection: A Study in Paul's Strategy (London: SCM, 1966) 124 n. 204.Google Scholar

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4 Bauer, ‘‘κοινωνία’, para. 1.

5 Substantially the same alternative translation is offered by Bauer as far back as the second edition of his Wörterbuch (1928): ‘sie haben sich vorgenommen, e. Art engen Verhältnisses herzustellen zu d. Armen’ (paragraph 1). Yet, to our knowledge only Keck mentions the rendering, calling it ‘a masterpiece of ambiguity’ (Keck, L. E., ‘The Poor among the Saints in Jerusalem’, ZNW 66 [1965] 119Google Scholar n. 65). Likewise none of the major translations even inform the reader of any alternative rendering.

6 Dunn, Romans, 875.

7 ‘Κοινωνία’, Liddell, H. G., Scott, R. and Jones, H. S., A Greek-English Lexicon (Oxford: Clarendon, 1968) 970Google Scholar, paragraph III.1; cf. Rostowzew, M., ‘Die Domäne von Pogla’, Jahreshefte des österreichischen archäologischen Instituts in Wien 4 (1900) Beiblatt 37–46Google Scholar. I am indebted to R. Herrmann for his insightful comments on this inscription.

8 Rostowzew, ‘Die Domäne’, 39.

9 Cf. Phil 4.18; Pol. Phil. 4.3; Herm. Sim. 5.3.3, 7–8; 2 Clem. 16.4. On the spiritualization of sacrifice see Ferguson, E., ‘Spiritual Sacrifice in Early Christianity and Its Environment’, ANRW 2.23.2 (ed. W. Haase, 1980) 1151–89.Google Scholar

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14 Contra Nickle, Collection, 124 n. 204; following Seesemann, ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΑ, 28, 67 and Hauck, ‘κοινός κτλ.’, 809.

15 Cf. κοινωνίαν ργαζόμενον, Plut. Mor. 957a.

16 See, e.g., Polyb. 21.30.4; Plut. Thes. 30.2; Rom. 23.5; 25.4; Sol. 5.1–2; Josephus AJ 5.55; 7.107; 12.414; 13.259, 269; 14.10; BJ 1.38.

17 No social significance is mentioned by Cranfield, Dunn, Käsemann, Keck, Michel, Morris, Wilckens, Zeller, Ziesler, Nickle, Seesemann or Georgi. On aspects of social reciprocity see, e.g., Bolkestein, H., Wohltätigkeit und Armenpflege in vorchristlichen Altertum (Utrecht: Oosthoek, 1939)Google Scholar; Mott, S. C., ‘The Power of Giving and Receiving: Reciprocity in Hellenistic Benevolence’, Current Issues in Biblical and Patristic Interpretation (ed. Hawthorne, G. F.; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1975) 60–72.Google Scholar

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20 Motto, Seneca Sourcebook, 89.

21 E.g., Thuc. 2.40; Dio Cass. 48.16.3, Arr. Epict. Diss. 2.22.34, Plut. Sull. 3.1.

22 R. Bogaert, ‘Geld’, RAC 9.839; cf. Ar. Vesp. 606–7; Soph. Fr. 85; Andoc. Or. 4.15; and see the examples of φιλίαν ποιήσασθαι cited above.

23 See, e.g., Käsemann, , An die Römer (4., durchgesehene Auflage; Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1980) 385Google Scholar; Cranfield, Romans, 773. We note that mention of the collection as a debt of thanks is lacking in Dodd, Dunn, Michel, Morris and Schlier.

24 On the concept of gratitude see Kraft, P., ‘Gratus Animus (Dankbarkeit)’, RAC 12.733–52.Google Scholar

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32 E.g., Arr. Epict. Diss. 2.9.12; Arist. Eth. Nic. 1119b25; Plato Resp. 332a-b; Artem. 1.42; Philo Cherubim 122–3; Ps-Plato Axiochus 366b-c; Acts 20.35; cf. Cic. Amic. 8.26.

33 No explanation is offered by Cranfield, Dodd, Dunn, Michel, Morris, Schlier or Wilckens.

34 Käsemann, Römer, 385.

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