🇬🇧 Glory be to Jesus Christ! 🌞
A direct continuation of yesterday’s
reading, which has verse 27 in common with it, and which is addressed
here:
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Philippians I, 28 – ‘ενδειξις απωλειας’ – ‘endeiksis apoleias’ - ‘evidence of loss, destruction, ruin’. That is, Paul means that those who oppose the Gospel are moving towards ruin and loss, and this will become apparent to everyone, obvious, a testimony to everyone. But for those who defend the faith of the Gospel, this defence serves to salvation.
Verse 29 deals with the deep theme of suffering for Christ’s sake. I
wrote about it briefly earlier, here is the link:
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Philippians I, 30 – ‘εμοι’ – ‘emoi’ – (to) ‘me’ ((about) ‘me’).
Literally, saw in me and now hear in me
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Philippians II, 1 – ‘παρακλησις’ – ‘paraklesis’ – ‘comfort, consolation’. ‘παραμυθιον’ – ‘paramythion’ – ‘comfort, consolation’. ‘κοινωνια’ – ‘koinonia’ – ‘fellowship, communion, participation’. ‘σπλαγχνα και οικτιρμοι’ – ‘splankhna kai oiktirmoi’ – ‘compassion, sympathy and pity, compassion’. The apostle lists deeply personal feelings that show that in Christ people have become close to God, much closer than they could have thought.
Philippians II, 2 – ‘το αυτο φρονητε την αυτην αγαπην εχοντες συμψυχοι το εν φρονουντες’ – ‘to auto phronete ten auten agapen ekhontes sympsykhoi to en phronountes’ – ‘thought the same things, had the same love unanimously in the mind and in the thoughts’.
Philippians II, 3 – ‘εριθειαν’ – ‘epitheian’ – ‘rivalry, ambition’.
In verse 4, some texts have ‘and of others’, and some simply ‘of others’.
It is a very rich and intense description of the Christian life and way of thinking, worldview, behaviour, one of the most illustrative in all of Scripture. I will not dwell in detail on each verse, because each one is worthy of great attention in particular, and all of them together as well. I will add that the continuation of this reading is the one that is often read in honour of the Mother of God, Who is a wonderful example of virtues, including all of those listed here.
Luke IX, 12 – ‘ημερα’ – ‘emera’ – ‘day’.
Luke IX, 13 – ‘ημιν’ – ‘emin’ – ‘us’. ‘ημεις’ – ‘emeis’ – ‘we’.
The miracle of the feeding of the 5,000 and the question of Who Jesus is.
For the parallel passages in Matthew (Matthew XIV, 14-22), Mark (Mark
VI, 32-44) and John (John VI, 1-13), see the links:
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The Apostle’s reading literally continues his regular reading, so the texts are consecutive (see above).
For more information about these frequent readings on the feasts in
honour of the Mother of God, see this link:
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Glory be to Thee, our God, glory be to Thee!
Source:
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