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In this fine new commentary on Paul's letter to the Philippians, Stephen Fowl notes that for the great premodern commentators of the Christian tradition, the literal sense of Scripture is always regulated by theological concerns. Thus, unlike commentaries that simply append theology to historical criticism, Fowl's volume displays disciplined attention to the text of Philippians in ways that...

phronein, which played such an important role in 2:1–4.3 Thus, in this first clause of 2:5 Paul is urging the Philippians to adopt that common phronēsis, or practical reasoning, that he has argued for in 2:1–4. This pattern of practical reasoning involves a common perspective on their situation and how it fits into the divine economy and the practical implications of that perspective. We might do well to follow Wayne Meeks’s paraphrase: “Base your practical reasoning on what you see in Christ Jesus.”4
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