and then it was his privilege on a subsequent missionary journey to visit with them briefly. Between that brief visit and his writing of the epistle to the Philippians, another five years elapse. So ten years have transpired between the events recorded in Acts 16, where we see the foundation of the church at Philippi, and the time when he writes, “To all of the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons.” The fact that Paul had but one brief visit with these Philippians