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Philippians and Philemon - MR Vincent - 1906.pdf

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I. 5, 6] THE PROLOGUE 7<br />

ticipation in a common object. The word occurs often in Paul<br />

<strong>and</strong> in John's epistles. Occasionally of the particular form which<br />

the spirit of fellowship assumes, as the giving of alms (Rom. xv. 26 ;<br />

Heb. xiii. 16), but always with an emphasis upon the principle<br />

of Christian fellowship which underlies the gift. Here it means<br />

sympathetic participation in labor <strong>and</strong> suffering.<br />

TT] Kotv. :<br />

' your fellowship.' ' Not fellowship with you *<br />

(objective genitive) ; for when Paul uses the objective genitive<br />

with,it is to express fellowship with a divine <strong>and</strong> not a<br />

human person (i Cor. i. 9 ; 2 Cor. xiii. 13; Phil. ii. i). Moreover,<br />

when is used of fellowship wif/i {una cum) human<br />

persons, the relation is indicated by /£ (i John i. 3, 7). Comp.<br />

705, 2 Cor. vi. 14. Hence here is subjective. No defining<br />

word indicates their fellowship with him. The meaning is their<br />

fellowship with each other in the cause of the gospel. If the reference<br />

had been particularly to their fellowship with Paul,<br />

€ would probably have been added.<br />

CIS TO evayyeXiov : Describes the character <strong>and</strong> object of the fel-<br />

lowship. For with eis, see Rom. xv. 26; 2 Cor. ix. 13;<br />

<strong>and</strong> comp.«/«', Phil. iv. 15. The meaning is not 'con-<br />

tribution,' though the thought of their gifts may have been distinctly<br />

present to the apostle's mind (so Ellic. <strong>and</strong> Lightf.) ; nor<br />

' participation ' in the gospel as sharers of its blessings ; but ' your<br />

close association in the furtherance of the gospel.'<br />

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