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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...

reflection. That some preach from motives of envy, rivalry, divisiveness, pretense, and with hired hand mentality is lamentable but not really surprising. We are not strangers to competition in the work of Christ, to that sense of pleasure over the failure of another’s program or the decline of another congregation. In a culture which demands that we think in terms of winners and losers, even a God who desires that all win is served by persons who think heaven will be sweeter because there is a hell.
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