Christianity must have struck a cord with the simple people of Greece as it did with the simple people of Jesus' time that lived the simple life and trusted in providence for their sustenance once that had done what they were morally obligated to. They needed to be happy and content with their station's in life. This way, they would not suffer from the anxiety of worrying about what would happen tomorrow. While this was mentioned above, we must again state that while the Roman's may have ruled the Mediterranean world, it was the Greeks who colonized the minds of the area's inhabitants. The minds of Jewish peasants may have been...

They thought more like the Greeks than they would have ever have admitted in public. One can readily see this when they see the linkage between the truth of the simple life and providence in both society's as portrayed in Matthew and the "Hunters of Euboea."
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