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Paul’s letter to the Philippians may aptly be seen as a meditation on joy. But Paul’s joy, rather than the result of ease and comfort, is a contentedness made pure through suffering. He has “learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.” Ralph Martin shows how these themes flow from and emulate Christ’s humility,...

is buttressed by a solemn warning of the Lord’s nearness, The Lord is near. This is either a quotation from Psalm 145 (144 [LXX]):18 or a variation of the early Christian watchword and invocation of the Lord’s coming, Marana tha, ‘our Lord, come!’ (1 Cor. 16:22; cf. Rev. 22:20). Michaelis, Caird, Bruce and Getty suggest the first alternative with the meaning of ‘the nearness experienced in fellowship with the Lord’; Psalm 118 (119):151 in LXX supports this. But the eschatological sense of the Lord’s
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