Oct 5, 2026 · 33 min · 9 segments
Dear friends, It is a preacher’s foible and failing that we like to have alliteration, so today’s heading of Money, Men and Manners is an attempt to unite Paul’s concluding chapter in his first…
Philip JensenHost
Peter JensenHost
I was a bit hesitant about this one and wondered if we should jump over it, so to speak.
I can give you a running commentary on, just out of my head, on all the chapters that lead up to it and culminating in chapter 15, which is sort of so wonderful.
It just seems to be the, you know, the PS at the end of a letter, just saying a few other things.
But now we've actually read it again, I have to say I have a different point of view.
I suppose I was hesitant because it's rather historically sort of bound and is it relevant to us anymore? I should have known better.
It's not a series of unrelated proverbs or maxims on the way through or something like that.
And as we hear what he has to say, and yes, bound into the history of the day, but we're looking at what lies behind it as well.
its relevance happens to be quite significant at various points, as you've already said.
And to say nothing, there are some pretty forthright challenges, as we'll see in verses 13 and 14, and then again in verse 22.
Well, I want to just pick up on what you've actually said on the historical provenance of things.
And maxims without any historical context can be made to mean quite different things.
Whereas you can understand the Bible more easily because it does give this clear historical context, isn't it? I mean, it is a real letter written to real people, and as we can see this context, it enables us to understand with greater confidence what the author was saying to the people.
I was a bit hesitant about this one and wondered if we should jump over it, so to speak.
I can give you a running commentary on, just out of my head, on all the chapters that lead up to it and culminating in chapter 15, which is sort of so wonderful.
It just seems to be the, you know, the PS at the end of a letter, just saying a few other things.
But now we've actually read it again, I have to say I have a different point of view.
I suppose I was hesitant because it's rather historically sort of bound and is it relevant to us anymore? I should have known better.
It's not a series of unrelated proverbs or maxims on the way through or something like that.
And as we hear what he has to say, and yes, bound into the history of the day, but we're looking at what lies behind it as well.
its relevance happens to be quite significant at various points, as you've already said.
And to say nothing, there are some pretty forthright challenges, as we'll see in verses 13 and 14, and then again in verse 22.
Well, I want to just pick up on what you've actually said on the historical provenance of things.
And maxims without any historical context can be made to mean quite different things.
Whereas you can understand the Bible more easily because it does give this clear historical context, isn't it? I mean, it is a real letter written to real people, and as we can see this context, it enables us to understand with greater confidence what the author was saying to the people.
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