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S2 Ep1040: Misreading Scripture and Phoebe the Letter Carrier (and Interpreter?): Dr. E. Randy Richards

Theology in the Raw

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What Is Patronage?

In the Greco-Roman system, the patron client was a massive status difference. Scripture sees patronage in a very positive term: God is our patron. If you freed your slaves, they were called friends. Jesus says on the night before he's betrayed, I used to call you slaves, but now you're friends. Our status has changed. We're freedmen in the household of them.

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