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ready sympathy were ever on the side of right. They often came
to the aid of the apostles in their affliction and pecuniary necessity.
Paul said of these brethren, “Now ye Philippians, know also that in
the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no
church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving,
but ye only. For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my
necessity.”
He sends also salutations from the brethren to Caesar’s household;
for officers in the employment of the emperor had been converted under
the labors of the apostles, and through the wonderful manifestation of
God in their deliverance from prison.
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