Epistle to the Philippians

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The Epistle of Paul to the Philippians is a book of the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It is divided into four chapters since the Middle Ages.

Content

Chapter 1

V. 1-2: sender, receiver, input Greeting

V. 3-11: The eschatological day of Christ

V. 12-26: The Christian winning the suffering

V. 27-30: The willingness of the Christian community to the suffering

Chapter 2

V. 1-11: The Christ Hymn ( Philippians ), a Christian Psalm

V. 12-18: God creates the human salvation

V. 19-30: Return of Timothy and Epaphroditus of Philippi

Chapter 3

V. 1-11: Warning of a relapse into the legality

V. 12-17: The goal of the Christian faith

Chapter 4

V. 1-9: exhortation to unity

V. 10-20: Paul thanks the Philippians for their gift

V. 21-23: Final Greeting

Background

The ancient Macedonian city that we now call Philippi ( fr. Philippe ), was named at the time of Paul, Colonia Iulia Augusta Philippensis ( by Collart, Philippe, Paris 1937: Colonia Iulia Augusta Philippensis ). It was created by Philip of Macedon in place of the older Κρηνιδες ( Kraenides ) and stood since about 167 BC under Roman rule. Below her she was a two-time Roman colony founded ( according to Bormann, Philippi, Leiden 1995). First, by Mark Antony in 42 BC as a so-called supply colony (opposite: settlement colony of Roman citizens city ) established for the settlement of discharged soldiers, she learned after 31 BC by Emperor Augustus (born Gaius Octavius ​​) a start-up that their re- colonization " to stabilize his personal rule and the Roman Empire " ( Bormann, p.19) used.

The political character of a Roman colony does not correspond to that of an independent polis, rather it sees itself as " one of the laws of the city of Rome adult daughter church" ( Bormann, p 30). The power-political decision-making basis for Roman colony ups ( settlement colonies of Roman town citizens and supply colonies dismissed Roman soldiers and officers ) existed in the time of the Republic ( from 509 BC) in either the deduction of a lex ( senatorisches Act), or in the period of the civil wars after 133 BC in a magistrates decision.

Based on Acts (Acts ) 16:12 EU called Philippi ( Φιλιπποι ) " a city ( πολις ) of the first district of Macedonia, a ( Roman ) colony ". Paul founded in Philippi the first Christian church on European soil. In 1 Thessalonians 2.2 EU Paul writes that he " had suffered and been mistreated " in Philippi. The author of the Acta Pauli reports of Paul's journey from Philippi to Corinth. In this city, Paul reports on forced labor, he had to do in Philippi. Acts 20.6 EU mentioned that Paul left Philippi with the ship on his last journey to Jerusalem. Also Polycarp wrote two letters to the church at Philippi (Harrison, Polycarp 's two epistles to the Philippians. 1936).

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