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SCOT: Status ruled Rome (and Corinth, and Athens, and probably everywhere else). It is for me nearly impossible to think of anyone in a Roman house church who was not thinking in terms of status of everyone he or she met. The sort of multi level forms of status has been explored by Wayne Meeks, and the volume that updated his volume extended this even further. So, when I see Dunatoi and Adunatoi in Romans I can\u2019t not think of status. Many tensions in the church and in society at that time were shaped by these status issues. With that, I have big doubts that \u201cweak\u201d can be used and not be a kind of status degradation; \u201cstrong\u201d has to be some kind of status elevation.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"