ratulation"
(_sugchairein_) on their part, would he go out to death as the Lord's
_martyr_!

[1] _Upekousate_: the aorist. It gathers into one thought the whole
recollection of his work at Philippi.

[2] "There is not the slightest contradiction here to the profound
truth of the Justification by Faith only; that is to say, only for the
merit's sake of the Redeemer, appropriated by submissive trust; that
justification whose sure issue is glorification (Rom. viii. 30). It is
an instance of independent lines converging on one goal. From one
point of view, that of justifying merit, man is glorified because of
Christ's work alone, applied to his case through faith alone. From
another point, that of qualifying capacity, and of preparation for the
Lord's individual welcome (Matt. xxv. 21; Rom. ii. 7), man is glorified
as the issue of a process of work and training, in which in a true
sense he is himself operant, though grace lies below the whole
operation." (Note on this verse in _The Cambridge Bible for Schools
and Colleges_).

[3] It is possible to render _logon xoee epechontes_, "serving as life
(to the world)." But it is unlikely. See Philippians in _The
Cambridge Greek Testament_, Appendix.

[4] The aorists obviously are anticipatory; giving the review of the
past as he will then make it. Cp. e.g. _kathos epegnosthen_, 1 Cor.
xiii. 12.

[5] "He views the Philippians, in their character of consecrated
believers (cp. Rom. xii. 1), as a holocaust to God; and upon that
sacrifice the drink-offering, the outpoured wine, is his own
life-blood, his martyrdom for the Gospel which he has preached to them.
Cp. Num. xv. 5 for the Mosaic libation, _oinon eis sponden_ . . .
_poisete epi tes holokautoseos_. Lightfoot thinks that a reference to
pagan libations is more likely in a letter to a Gentile mission. But
surely St Paul familiarized all his converts with Old Testament
symbolism. And _his own_ mind was of course full of it (Note here in
_The Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools_).--This and Rom. xv. 16 are
the only two passages where St Paul connects the language of
"sacerdotalism" with the distinctive work of the Christian ministry;
and both passages speak obviously in the tone of figure and, so to say,
poetry.

[6] _Chairete_: _sugchairete_. The form leaves us free to render
either _indicative_ or _imperative_. But the latter is most likely in
the context.

[7] _Soteria_ must here include not only fin