latter is implied (cf. “further” in 1:12). The double use is emphatic,578 Paul urging for much more love from the Philippians, i.e., “love beyond measure” (O’Brien, 73).579 The term ἔτι adds to the love they have historically shown580—yet more and more love. The double μᾶλλον and περισσεύω gives a powerful image of love pouring like a mighty waterfall, or of glorious, radiating sunlight flowing from the Philippians toward each other and overflowing into the world (cf. Phil 2:14). The adv. ἔτι, “yet,
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