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In this volume, Mark J. Keown scrupulously examines Philippians with a clear eye on the original text and a fine-tuned ear to first-century culture while also interacting with the full history of scholarship on Philippians. The result is the most comprehensive commentary on Philippians to date that also carefully considers the letter’s theological and devotional importance for present-day...

work, and the gospel.584 Although some prefer to take the prep. as directive, indicating directed knowledge,585 or as having no special significance,586 it is likely that the prep. ἐπί is intensive, suggesting “full knowledge” (Bockmuehl, 67; Lightfoot, 86). It thus means full spiritual knowledge, recognition, and insight. As noted above, some see ἐν as signaling another element of the intercession, but this is unlikely. It can be locative, indicating the context of knowledge (O’Brien, 74), i.e.,
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