Galatians, Philippians, Philemon, I Thessalonians (Biblia.com)

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This volume of the Augsburg Commentary on the New Testament contains commentaries on Galatians, Philippians, Philemon, and 1 Thessalonians. Galatians was written in the heat of controversy. Paul believed the Gospel to be under a deadly attack that would destroy the churches he had founded and ultimately destroy the Gospel itself. He used all the arguments at his command to counteract that...

God and the Philippians in the Working Out of Salvation (2:12–18) It might seem, with the crescendo of v. 11 still echoing in his readers’ ears, that Paul has settled once and for all the question of who brings about the world’s redemption. It is God in Christ alone! But then comes an unsettling paradox: Therefore, my beloved … work out your own salvation (v. 12). This cannot mean that the Philippians are to earn their place with God, for such a teaching would run contrary to Paul’s clarion declarations

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