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In this commentary, Fred Craddock focuses on the text of Philippians rather than on conversations among scholars about the text. He begins by exploring the importance of Philippians as a letter of Paul to a particular church. His commentary on the text differs from many other commentaries in that issue of authorship, date, place of writing, integrity, or purpose are dealt with at points where the...

zeal is satisfied with circumcision of Christians), as to righteousness under the law blameless. Can any of the intruders match such painstaking adherence to the law’s demands? If any of the Philippians were impressed by the Judaizing preachers, they certainly should now be more impressed by Paul, even if they had heard this story before (3:1b). The sketch is impressive, especially in the fact that Paul does not extol the virtues of his new life in Christ by a deprecating description of his life
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