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The free bread of Rome doled out to the members of the temples was at the heart of the Christian conflict. Christ forbid us to be like the Benefactors of the world who exercised authority nor should we eat at their table which Paul and David told us was a snare. Such systems were covetous practices that would make us merchandise and curse children. Living by force is not the same as living by faith. Repenting meant we could not think like the Pharisees and live by their Corban. To eat the things sacrificed to these idolatrous systems was fornication and if we would become accustomed to living at the expense of others like the Romans we would become perfect savages too.

The word fornication appears mostly in the New Testament used by Paul. The Greek word is porneiaes(πορνεία) which can mean "illicit sexual intercourse" but is also a metaphor describing "the worship of idols". We know that the worship of idols and idolatry often had to do with membership in one of the temples and that these temples provided a variety of government services including the free bread of Rome and other welfare services including recordkeeping to determine who was eligible for those services of the Roman or other governments.

There is also the verb porneuo (πορνεύω) which we see in several verses which can mean "to prostitute one’s body" but is also a metaphor for "to be given to idolatry, to worship idols".

Even the word porne (πόρνη)can mean "a woman who sells her body for sexual uses" but is also a metaphor for "an idolatress" and even "Babylon" i.e. Rome, the chief seat of idolatry sometimes associated with Balaam.