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Philippians and Philemon: A Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

Together, these two letters show much of Paul’s vital passion for the church and the bonds that held early Christians together in their faith.

that Paul’s addressees are encouraged to live in a world the hostile powers of which are in the process of being subjected to the kenotic Christ.38 [2:9–11] Second, the exaltation theme of the hymn makes much better sense in Käsemann’s rendering than in any other. Jesus is not here exalted to the human dominion given at creation (Gen 1:28), “but to the uniquely divine sovereignty which is acknowledged by all creation when God’s sole deity as the one and only God is universally confessed.”39 This
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