RELIGST 2HH3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Epaphras, Archippus, Wisdom Tradition
22 Oct 2013
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Letter writing was once the preferred means of communication with people that you could not immediately be with. No sense that there is danger of immorality, false preachers etc; no suspicions or doubt of paul. Ask the philippians to strive together; think of the needs of others, rather than themselves. Mentions two women by name and asks them to work together to promote the gospel: promote christian virtue - , warning against false teachers, submission to the law. Doesn"t seem to be a present danger. Warning them of the same sorts of things that happened in galatia (promotion of circumcision and the observance of the law) In galatia it is a present danger, paul was worried that he was losing them. Seems more like a general concern this could happen, so he warns them: concern arises that people misunderstand the message of freedom. Not subject to the law but do not indulge sinful passions.
