NT.filter - rwp hilt:

rwp@2Corinthians:8:23 @{About Titus} (\huper Titou\). There is no verb expressed. Supply "inquire." He endorses Titus up to the hilt. He is "my partner" (\koinnos emos\) and "fellow-worker" (\sunergos\). {Messengers of the churches} (\apostoloi ekklsin\). Apostles in the general sense of "sent ones" (from \apostell\, to send) by the churches and responsible to the churches for the handling of the funds. {The glory of Christ} (\doxa Christou\). Financial agents, please observe.

rwp@Mark:2:27 @{For man} (\dia ton anthrpon\). Mark alone has this profound saying which subordinates the sabbath to man's real welfare (mankind, observe, generic article with \anthrpos\, class from class). Man was not made for the sabbath as the rabbis seemed to think with all their petty rules about eating an egg laid on the sabbath or looking in the glass, _et cetera_. See 2Macc. strkjv@5:19 and _Mechilta_ on strkjv@Exodus:31:13|: "The sabbath is delivered unto you and ye are not delivered unto the sabbath." Christianity has had to fight this same battle about institutionalism. The church itself is for man, not man for the church.