So as (otTws xaos). Rev., “which so walk even as ye have,” etc. The two words are correlative. Briefly, cmitate me and those who follow my example.
18. Many walk. No word is supplied describing the char- acter of their walk; but this is brought out by enemies of the
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cross of Christ, and in the details of ver. 19. The persons al- luded to were probably those of Epicurean tendencies. This and Judaic formalism were the two prominent errors in the Philippian church.
19. Belly. Rom. xvi. 18. So the Cyclops in Euripides: “My flocks which I sacrifice to no one but myself, and not to the gods, and to this my belly the greatest of the gods: for to eat and drink each day, and to give one’s self no trouble, this is the god for wise men ” (‘ Cyclops,” 3384-338).
Glory. That which they esteem glory.
Earthly things (ra éméyera). See on 2 Cor. v. 1. Compare Col. iii. 2.
20. Conversation (zroA/revwa). Only here in the New Test- ament. Rev., cetezenship, commonwealth in margin. The rendering conversation, in the sense of manner of life (see on 1 Pet. i. 15), has no sufficient warrant; and that qoddrevpa com- monwealth, is used interchangeably with zronetela citizenship, is not beyond question. Commonwealth gives a good and consist- ent sense. The state of which we are citizens is in heaven. See on ch. i. 27. Compare Plato: “That city of which we are the founders, and which exists in idea only; for I do not believe that there is such an one anywhere on earth. In Heaven, I replied, there is laid up the pattern of it methinks, which he who desires may behold, and beholding may settle himself there ” (“‘ Republic,” 592).
Is in heaven (idpyer). The use of this word instead of éors zis is peculiar. See on being, ch. ii. 6. It has a backward look. It exists now in heaven, having been established there of old. Compare Heb. xi. 16; John xiv. 2.
We look for (dzexdeyoueda). Rev., wart for. See on 1 Cor. i. 7. Used only by Paul, and in Heb. ix. 28. Compare Rom. viii. 19, 23, 25; Gal. v.5. It indicates earnest, patient waiting and expectation. As in dmroxapaSoxia earnest expecta- toon, ch. i. 20, the compounded preposition dé denotes the withdrawal of attention from inferior objects. The word is
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habitually used in the New Testament with reference to a future manifestation of the glory of Christ or of His people.
The Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ (cwrjpa). Saviour has no article, and its emphatic position in the sentence indicates that it is to be taken predicatively with Jesws Christ, and not as the direct object of the verb. Hence render: we await as Saviour the Lord, etc. Compare Heb. ix. 28, “To them that wait for Him will He appear a second time unto salvation.”
21. Shall change (uetacynuatice). See on Matt. xvii. 2; 1 Cor. iv. 6; xi. 13. Also on form, ch. ii. 6; and fashion, ch. ii. 8. The word thus indicates a change in what is outward and shifting—the body. Rev., correctly, shall fashion anew. Refashion (?).
Our vile body (To capa Tis taTrewwoews juov). Wrong. Render, as Rev., the body of our humiliation. See, for the vic- ions use of hendiadys in A. V., on Eph. i. 19. Lightfoot ob- serves that the A. V. seems to countenance the stoic contempt of the body. Compare Col. i. 22. The biographer of Arch- bishop Whately relates that, during his last illness, one of his chaplains, watching during the night at his bedside, in making some remark expressive of sympathy for his sufferings, quoted these words: ‘ Who shall change our vile body.” The Arch- bishop interrupted him with the request ‘‘ Read the words.” ° The chaplain read them from the English Bible; but he reiter- ated, “Read jis own words.” The chaplain gave the literal translation, “this body of our humiliation.” ‘“ That’s right,” interrupted the Archbishop, “ not véde—nothing that He made is vile.”