PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
Philippian Studies
Moule, H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn) · 50,434 words · 73 reading sections
Purity And Peace In The Present Lord
The passage now to be translated has surely this among its other precious attractions and benefits, that it stands related to what has gone just before. The precepts and promises are not given as it were in the air; they are occasioned by Euodia and Syntyche, or rather by what they have suggested to St Paul's mind, the…
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Then follows one word of a more personal kind; it is no egotism, but as if he would remind them amidst these great generalities of principle that they well knew a human life which strove to realize them in practice. Ver. 9. +The things you learnt+ of me, +and received+ as revealed truth from me, and +heard and saw in …
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Again, here is the fact that the normal Christian life is, as such, a life of "moderation known unto all men," in the controlling calm of the nearness of the Lord. The meaning of this "moderation" (_to epieikes_) we have seen; it is that blessed facility, that unselfish yieldingness, which is not weakness at all but th…
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Lastly, the normal Christian life, thus conditioned, is a life whose mental energies (_logixesthe_) are fully at work, always gravitating towards purposes and actions true, pure, gracious, virtuous, commendable; "sowing the fruit of righteousness in peace," at the side of "the God of peace." True, the man may have many…
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[7] "Cp. Rev. iii. 5, xiii. 8, xvii. 8, xx. 12, 15, xxi. 27; and Luke x. 20. And see Exod. xxxii. 32, 33; Ps. lxix. 28, lxxxvii. 6; Isa. iv. 3; Ezek. xiii. 9; Dan. xii. 1. The result of the comparison of these passages with this seems to be that St Paul here refers to the Lord's 'knowledge of them that are His' (2 Tim.…
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"Is thy cruse of comfort wasting? rise and share it with another, And through all the years of famine it shall serve thee and thy brother. "Is thy burthen hard and heavy? do thy steps drag wearily? Help to bear thy brother's burthen; God will bear both it and thee. "Is the heart a living power? self-entwin'd, its …
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Ver. 13. +running over and of coming short. For all things I am strong in Him who makes me able.+[4] But not even this joyful testimony to the enabling presence of his Lord must divert his thought from the loving act of the Philippians. He seems about to dilate on the glorious theme of what he can be and do in Christ;…
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Ver. 20. Fulness dwells."[10] +But now to our God and Father+, to Him of whom I and you are alike the dear children, +be the glory+, the praise for this and for all like acts of His children's love, +for ever and ever+; "to the ages of the ages," the endless cycles of eternal life, in which shall it be fully seen how H…
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And what is its secret, its elixir of undying life? It is the Name of Jesus Christ. It is that these pages are the message of "the chosen Vessel" about that Name. Our studies in the Epistle shall close with that reflexion. The incidental topics and interests of the document are numerous indeed; but the main theme is o…
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"He speaks of a holy immortality, of eternal glory, and of pleasures for evermore. It is no vague aspiration; it is a sure and certain hope; and it is altogether in Jesus Christ. 'Our home, our citizenship, is in heaven, from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord _Jesus Christ_, who shall change the body of our…
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[3] _Memuemai_: the verb whose root is that of _mysterion_, _mysterium_, "mystery." In the Greek world "mysteries" were systems of religious belief and practice derived, perhaps, from pre-Hellenic times, and jealously guarded from common knowledge by their votaries. Admission into their secrets, as into those of Freema…
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ACTS xxviii. 16, 31 "Paul was suffered to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him. . . . preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ." (THE SOLDIER loquitur.) Father, the dawn is near! the shield Of Luna sinks remote and pale O'er Tiber and the Martial field; …
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