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A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistles to the Philippians and to Philemon is unavailable, but you can change that!

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Humility is urged because it is necessary to concord, as κενοδοξία is fatal to concord. For the supreme example and illustration of this virtue, the readers are now pointed to Jesus Christ. (Comp. Rom. 15:3; 2 Cor. 8:9; 1 Pet. 2:21, and the striking parallel in Clem. ad Cor. xvi.) . Cherish the disposition which dwelt in Christ Jesus. For he, though he existed from eternity in a state of equality with God, did not regard that divine condition of being as one might regard a prize to be eagerly
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