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A comparison of the Epistle to the Philippians with the letters that Paul had written before it might seem to indicate that the church at Philippi had no censurable weaknesses at all. Such a thought, of course, cannot be true because just as "there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins" (Eccl. 7: 20 ESV) so it is with churches, and even though the church at Philippi is not...

The second was the naval battle of Actium in 31 BC when Octavian defeated Mark Antony and became undisputed emperor. Veterans of those battles settled in Philippi and it became ‘a colony’ with the honorific name Colonia Augusta Iulia (Victrix) Philippiensis, the name Iulia being that of Octavian’s daughter. Invaders use their military might to conquer and then proceed to transform by giving prominence to their language and culture, or even imposing these things with the force of law. Alexander the
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