Eadie suggests, “The transitions depend upon no logical train—as the thoughts occurred they were dictated. And we can never know what suggested to the apostle the order of his topics.”6 A more recent advocate of this same view is Hendriksen. Attempts have been made repeatedly to construct a formal outline for Philippians, a central theme with its subdivisions.… But such themes either lack distinctiveness … or comprehensiveness.… What we have here is a genuine letter from Paul to his beloved church