These are not the worlds of a preacher to leaders of Northern industrial nations or to managers of transnational corporations, nor even to the privileged sectors of the Third World. Nevertheless, when the Apostle Paul wrote them to the Corinthians (2 Cor. 8:13-15), he has addressing a wealthy community. His view was not that the rich should be depleted but that those who had should share their surplus with the many who had not so that at the end all would have enough.
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