putting his life in danger, and his reception should befit that’. The use of ‘such ones’ indicates that Paul ‘considers Epaphroditus part of a general class of people’.33 ‘The work of Christ’ here, then, is work that is specifically related to Christ’s mission in which Paul was engaged and in which Epaphroditus and people like him could share. Paul mentions Epaphroditus partly because Epaphroditus functions as an example of what it means to have the same attitude as Christ (2:5–11). His actions in