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Here are Barclay’s offerings on these important New Testament texts. Written by Paul while in prison at Rome, the letter to the Philippians is concerned with the theological identification of Jesus both as God and human. The Letter to the Colossians combats heretical Gnostic teachings, declaring that God created the world through Jesus Christ, God’s own Son. The two letters to the Thessalonians...

Verse 6: Being in the form of God; he was by nature in the very form of God. Two words are most carefully chosen to show the unchangeable godhead of Jesus Christ. The word which the Authorized Version translates as being is from the Greek verb huparchein, which is not the common Greek word for being. It describes the very essence of every individual and that which cannot be changed. It describes that part of every one of us which, in any circumstances, remains the same. So Paul begins by saying that
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