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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...

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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