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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...

petitionary1 prayer. One cannot well be in the presence of God without a sense of need. The words in this verse can be variously punctuated, but they probably go together as a single thought with its studied repetition of the word all (Lightfoot, in loco). One’s mood in prayer varies according to the subject of the prayer. Here the Apostle prays “with joy,”2 “with a sense of joy” (Moffatt). This note is the undertone of the whole3 Epistle and sounds on through Paul’s petition for them which partakes
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