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Although relatively brief, Philippians is one of the most interesting and beloved of Paul’s undisputed epistles. In Philippians and Philemon, Bonnie Thurston makes a convincing case that canonical Philippians is as Paul wrote it, one letter. Although there is not enough specific evidence to “name names,” she suggests a number of possible audiences. A translation conforming as closely as possible...

“form” was. He always had the “essence” of God; he was “in nature God.” Morphē (essence) has been interpreted in three ways: (1) as a philosophical term (my own preference); (2) as akin to the words eidos or homoiōma in the LXX and meaning “outward form”; (3) in the context of Hellenistic Gnostic sects as a term for divine nature. Certainly morphē was a Greek philosophical term used by Aristotle to express true Being, a reality that never changes. “Visible form” would not have been the connotation
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