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Many modern critics fail to understand Paul because they fail to understand Jesus, and therefore do not know Jesus as Paul knew him—a critical error. In Paul’s Joy in Christ: Studies in the Philippians, Robertson asserts that “nowhere is the tender side of Paul’s nature better shown than here: his delicacy, his courtesy, his elevation of feeling, his independence, his mysticism, and his spiritual...

manner of Christ is a reason for repose of spirit (see next verses) and for gentleness towards others. The clause here is taken by some with verse 5, by some with verse 6, by some with both. It is true of the continued presence of Jesus with us by the Holy Spirit (Matt. 28:20) as well as of the blessed hope of His second coming. “Lo, I am with you all the days, even unto the consummation of the age.” Jesus is coming again, but Jesus is also here and near us all the varied days of our checkered human
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