Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
Distributing ('imparting') to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality, х filoxenian (G5381)] - that is, the entertainment of strangers. 'During times of persecution (as Hodge remarks), and before the general institution of houses of entertainment, there was special necessity for Christians to entertain strangers. As such houses are still rarely to be met with in the East, this duty continues to be there regarded as one of the most sacred character. [A corrupt and absurd reading - mneiais (G3417) for chreiais (G5532), 'imparting to the memories of the saints'-is actually found in D*FG, in one copy of the Old Latin (but that the best, the Codex Amiat.), and some of the fathers. It is even defended by Mill. But, as Meyer says, it no doubt owes its existence to the reverence into which the martyrs had grown at the thee when those manuscripts were written. The authority of all other manuscripts and versions is against it-and common sense.]