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[from PIE] spondeio — "to libate, to bring a fluid sacrifice, pour out a drink offering"
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The word "sponsor" has ancient roots. It referred to a pious person who poured out a drink offering to one of the gods.
About 150 AD, a Roman physician named Galen thought he had a better way to worship God ... write a book ... and he did ... recording what he had learned about the human body and its members so it could be used to teach others ... and his writings became the medical textbooks teaching physicians and passing on medical knowledge for centuries:
"I judge it to be piety, not to sacrifice many hecatombs of bulls to Him and to burn incense of innumerable perfumes and cassia, but first to learn myself, and afterwards to teach others too, how great He is in wisdom, how great in power, and of what sort in goodness."
— Galen, on the Use of Parts
Our sponsors at SunComLib are people like Galen who have been privileged to learn in life ... and graciously desire to pass that opportunity on to others through books, schools and libraries that educate by preserving and advancing the kind of knowledge that joins wisdom and power to promote goodness in the world.
Let us give thanks to God for these sponsors as we labor together with them across generations.
We could NOT do this work without them.
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