concluding with the promise of God’s “peace” to “guard their hearts and minds” (v. 7).17 Thus, even though only the first imperative (“rejoice”) is distinctively “Philippian,” and many of these items are common to other letters, beneath the surface lie hints of adaptation to the Philippian situation: (a) The earlier appeal to steadfastness in the face of opposition (1:27–30) is undergirded here by the repeated call to rejoice, the concern that their gentleness be evident to all, and the word against