Teks -- Philippians 2:1 (NET)

Christian Unity and Christ’s Humility

2:1 Therefore, if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort provided by love, any fellowship in the Spirit, any affection or mercy,

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Robertson: Phi 2:1 - If

If ( ei ).

Paul uses four conditions in this verse, all of the first class, assuming the condition to be true.

Robertson: Phi 2:1 - Comfort

Comfort ( paraklēsis ).

Rather, "ground of appeal to you in Christ."See note on 1Co 1:10; Eph 4:1.

Robertson: Phi 2:1 - Consolation

Consolation ( paramuthion ).

Old word from paramutheomai , persuasive address, incentive.

Robertson: Phi 2:1 - Of love

Of love ( agapēs ).

Objective genitive, "in love"(undefined as in 1Co 13:1-13).

Robertson: Phi 2:1 - Fellowship

Fellowship ( Koinéōnia ).

Partnership in the Holy Spirit "whose first fruit is love"(Gal 5:22).

Robertson: Phi 2:1 - Any tender mercies

Any tender mercies ( tis splagchna ).

Common use of this word for the nobler viscera and so for the higher emotions. But tis is masculine singular and splagchna is neuter plural. Lightfoot suggests an error of an early transcriber or even of the amanuensis in writing ei tis instead of ei tina .

Vincent: Phi 2:1 - Therefore

Therefore

Paul has spoken, in Phi 1:26, of the Philippians' joy in his presence. Their joy is to find expression in duty - in the fulfillment of their obligations as members of the christian commonwealth, by fighting the good fight of faith and cheerfully appropriating the gift of suffering (Phi 1:27-29). Phi 2:30, alluding to his own conflicts, marks the transition from the thought of their joy to that of his joy. Therefore , since such is your duty and privilege, fulfill my joy, and show yourselves to be true citizens of God's kingdom by your humility and unity of spirit.

Vincent: Phi 2:1 - Consolation

Consolation ( παράκλησις )

Rev., comfort . Better, exhortation . See on Luk 6:24. If Christ, by His example, sufferings, and conflicts, exhorts you.

Vincent: Phi 2:1 - Comfort of love

Comfort of love ( παραμύθιον )

Rev., consolation . Only here in the New Testament. From παρά beside , and μῦθος speech or word . Παρὰ has the same force as in παράκλησις exhortation (see on Luk 6:24); a word which comes to the side of one to stimulate or comfort him; hence an exhortation , an encouragement . So Plato: " Let this, then, be our exhortation concerning marriage" (" Laws," 773). A motive of persuasion or dissuasion. Plato, speaking of the fear of disgrace, or of ill-repute, says. " The obedient nature will readily yield to such incentives " (" Laws," 880). Also an assuagement or abatement . So Sophocles: " Offspring of the noble, ye are come as the assuagement of my woes" (" Electra," 130). Plato: " They say that to the rich are many consolations " (" Republic," 329). Plato also calls certain fruits stimulants (παραμυθία ) of a sated appetite (" Critias," 115). Here in the sense of incentive . As related to exhortation , exhortation uses incentive as a ground of appeal. Christ exhorts, appealing to love. Compare Phi 1:9 sqq. See Rom 5:8; 1Co 13:4; 2Co 5:14; Gal 5:13; Eph 5:2; 1Jo 4:16, etc. The two verbs kindred to exhortation and incentive occur together at 1Th 2:11. See on 1Co 14:3. Render here, if any incentive of love .

Vincent: Phi 2:1 - Fellowship of the Spirit

Fellowship of the Spirit

Communion with the Holy Spirit, whose first fruit is love. Gal 5:22. Participation in His gifts and influences. Compare 2Pe 1:4, and 2Co 13:13.

Vincent: Phi 2:1 - Bowels and mercies

Bowels and mercies ( σπλάγχνα καὶ οἰκτιρμοί )

For mercies , see on 2Co 1:3, and compare Col 3:12.

Wesley: Phi 2:1 - If there be therefore any consolation

In the grace of Christ.

Wesley: Phi 2:1 - If any comfort

In the love of God.

Wesley: Phi 2:1 - If any fellowship of the Holy Ghost; if any bowels of mercies

Resulting therefrom; any tender affection towards each other.

Clarke: Phi 2:1 - If there be therefore any consolation

If there be therefore any consolation - The ει, if, does not express any doubt here, but on the contrary is to be considered as a strong affirmation; as there is consolation in Christ, as there is comfort of love, etc

The word παρακλησις, translated here consolation, is in other places rendered exhortation, and is by several critics understood so here; as if he had said: If exhorting you in the name of Christ have any influence with you, etc. It is extremely difficult to give the force of these expressions; they contain a torrent of most affecting eloquence, the apostle pouring out his whole heart to a people whom with all his heart he loved, and who were worthy of the love even of an apostle

Clarke: Phi 2:1 - If any comfort of love

If any comfort of love - If the followers of Christ, by giving proofs of their ardent love to each other in cases of distress, alleviate the sufferings of the persecuted

Clarke: Phi 2:1 - If any fellowship of the Spirit

If any fellowship of the Spirit - If there be an intimate relation established among all Christians, by their being made mutual partakers of the holy Ghost

Clarke: Phi 2:1 - If any bowels and mercies

If any bowels and mercies - If you, as persons whom I have brought to God at the hazard of my life, feel sympathetic tenderness for me now, in a farther state of suffering;

Calvin: Phi 2:1 - If there is therefore any consolation

1.If there is therefore any consolation. There is an extraordinary tenderness in this exhortation, ⁹³ in which he entreats by all means the Philippians mutually to cherish harmony among themselves, lest, in the event of their being torn asunder by intestine contentions, they should expose themselves to the impostures of the false apostles. For when there are disagreements, there is invariably a door opened for Satan to disseminate impious doctrines, while agreement is the best bulwark for repelling them.

As the term παρακλήσεως is often taken to mean exhortation, the commencement of the passage might be explained in this manner: “If an exhortation which is delivered in the name and by the authority of Christ, has any weight with you.” The other meaning, however, corresponds better with the context: “If there is among you any consolation of Christ, ” by means of which you may alleviate my griefs, and if you would afford me any consolation and relief, which you assuredly owe me in the exercise of love; if you take into view that fellowship of the Spirit, which ought to make us all one; if any feeling of humanity and mercy resides in you, which might stir you up to alleviate my miseries, fulfill ye my joy, etc. From this we may infer, how great a blessing unity in the Church is, and with what eagerness pastors should endeavor to secure it. ⁹⁴ We must also at the same time take notice, how he humbles himself by beseechingly imploring their pity, while he might have availed himself of his paternal authority, so as to demand respect from them as his sons. ⁹⁵ He knew how to exercise authority when it was necessary, but at present he prefers to use entreaties, because he knew that these would be better fitted to gain an entrance into their affections, ⁹⁶ and because he was aware that he had to do with persons who were docile and compliant. In this manner the pastor must have no hesitation to assume different aspects for the sake of the Church. ⁹⁷

Defender: Phi 2:1 - bowels

The Greek word translated "bowels" actually was the word for intestines, but it was commonly also used figuratively for the deep inner affections of the heart (Col 3:12)."

TSK: Phi 2:1 - any consolation // if any comfort // if any fellowship // if any bowels

any consolation : Phi 3:3; Luk 2:10,Luk 2:11, Luk 2:25; Joh 14:18, Joh 14:27, Joh 15:11, Joh 16:22-24, Joh 17:13; Rom 5:1, Rom 5:2; Rom 15:12, Rom 15:13; 1Co 15:31; 2Co 1:5, 2Co 1:6, 2Co 2:14; 2Th 2:16, 2Th 2:17; Heb 6:18; 1Pe 1:6-8

if any comfort : Psa 133:1; Joh 15:10-12; Act 2:46, Act 4:32; Gal 5:22; Eph 4:30-32; Col 2:2; 1Jo 4:7, 1Jo 4:8, 1Jo 4:12, 1Jo 4:16

if any fellowship : Rom 5:5, Rom 8:9-16, Rom 8:26; 1Co 3:16, 1Co 6:19, 1Co 6:20, 1Co 12:13; 2Co 13:14; Gal 4:6; Eph 1:13, Eph 1:14, Eph 2:18-22, Eph 4:4; 1Pe 1:2, 1Pe 1:22, 1Pe 1:23; 1Jo 3:24

if any bowels : Phi 1:8; Col 3:12

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Poole: Phi 2:1 - Phi 2:1,2 // Phi 2:3 // Phi 2:4-8 // Phi 2:9-11 // Phi 2:12,13 // Phi 2:14,15 // Phi 2:16-18 // Phi 2:19,20 // Phi 2:21-30 // If there be therefore any consolation in Christ // consolation in Christ // If any comfort of love // If any fellowship of the Spirit // If any bowels and mercies

Phi 2:1,2 Paul earnestly recommends to the Philippians mutual

love and union,

Phi 2:3 lowliness of mind,

Phi 2:4-8 and that charitable condescension for the good of

others, exemplified in the life and death of Christ,

Phi 2:9-11 for which God had exalted him to be Lord of all.

Phi 2:12,13 He exhorteth them to carefulness in working out their

own salvation,

Phi 2:14,15 to obey the will of God cheerfully and universally,

that so they might distinguish themselves from the

rest of the world by a bright example of virtue,

Phi 2:16-18 and by their steadiness give him, cause to rejoice in

the success of his labours, who would gladly lay down

his life to serve them.

Phi 2:19,20 He hopeth to send Timothy to them shortly, whom he

greatly commendeth,

Phi 2:21-30 as he doth the affection and zeal of Epaphroditus,

whom he sendeth, with this Epistle.

The apostle, reassuming his exhortation in the former chapter to unanimity, Phi 1:27 , doth here, by way of inference from what went immediately before, press them in a very affectionate manner, with a kind of rhetorical relation, and obtestation, as it were, adjure them.

If there be therefore any consolation in Christ if any such exhortation, (as the word is rendered, Act 13:15 1Th 2:3 1Ti 4:13 ), in the name of Christ, might avail with them to cheer him and one another by their loving concord and being unanimous. Or as we, rendering it consolation; ; so Rom 15:4 2Co 1:4 If, which he may well suppose, and strongly affirm that he took it for granted, the main body of them had in some measure found by his ministry, what he here moves them to complete, compare Phi 1:6,7,27in expectation to find more of what they had experimented, whatever indisposition might have crept upon some by the insinuations of the false apostles; yet, this

consolation in Christ may be considered either:

1. Actively: q.d. If ye would comfort me afflicted, in the concerns of Christ, or if ye have any Christian comfort which doth only proceed from those that are in Christ, (not from moral philosophy), or which is wont to be in those who worship the same Christ, let me his apostle be a partaker thereof. Or:

2. Passively, 2Co 7:4,6 Phm 1:7 : If you, being in Christ, find any consolation against your afflictions, forasmuch as you have receivcd it by my ministry, we, being both in suffering circumstances, should be further comforted by a sweet agreement.

If any comfort of love the Syriac renders it, any speaking to the heart, any solace from good and comfortable words did reach your hearts, Joh 11:19,31 1Co 14:3 1Th 2:11 5:14 , cheered with the love of God or Christ, or the brethren: or refreshed with my love to you, Phi 1:8,9 ; or would that I should be conforted with your love to me, (as he himself and others were with the gracious affections of the Corinthians, 2Co 7:7 ), which ye ought unfeignedly.

If any fellowship of the Spirit if ye have any communion with me in the graces of the Spirit, and stand fast in one spirit, Phi 1:27 , and would show that you do persevere in the same Spirit, 1Co 12:4 , which acts in all the members of the mystical body of Christ, that do in him their Head partake of it.

If any bowels and mercies if ye are duly affected with any real sympathy and commiseration towards me in my bonds for Christ, such inward affections as were moving in him towards them; Phi 1:8 , with Luk 1:78 2Co 7:15 Col 3:12 ; the latter word emphatically expressing the sense of the metaphor in the former. Then he, having thus pathetically urged these arguments, and closely followed them to embrace the matter proposed, puts them upon.

PBC: Phi 2:1 - fellowship // bowels

" fellowship" -sharing of the Spirit

" bowels" -deep senses and commitments to mercy and compassion- probably an expression of the realization that at that point in time you realize that you did not live up to all the marks you should have lived up to and you need mercy. That’s when the deep compassion of mercy is most appreciated.

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Haydock: Phi 2:1 - If there be, therefore, any consolation

If there be, therefore, any consolation. If you have any desire to comfort me in Christ, or for Christ's sake. (Witham)

Gill: Phi 2:1 - If there be therefore any consolation in Christ // if any comfort of love // if any fellowship of the spirit // if any bowels and mercies

If there be therefore any consolation in Christ,.... Or "exhortation", as the word is sometimes rendered; that is, either if there is any exhortation of Christ to love and unity, as there is in Joh 13:34, and this is of any weight and value; or if an exhortation hereunto made in the name of Christ, by any of his ministers, messengers, and ambassadors, will be regarded, as it ought to be, then fulfil ye my joy, &c. Phi 2:2, but as the word is frequently translated "consolation", as it is here in the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions; the sense may be either, if there is any comfort to be given to them that are in Christ Jesus, as every converted man is, and as the apostle was, and especially to them that are afflicted and persecuted for the sake of Christ, are prisoners in him, and on his account, which was the apostle's case, then he desired they would attend to his following request: or if there was any consolation for them, and they had had any comfort in and from Christ; as all true, solid, strong, and everlasting consolation is only in Christ, and is founded on the greatness of his person, as God our Saviour, on the fulness of his grace, the efficacy of his blood, the perfection of his righteousness and sacrifice, and on the great salvation he is the author of: agreeably the Syriac version renders it, "if therefore ye have any consolation in Christ"; and the Arabic version, "if therefore ye enjoy any consolation from the grace of Christ"; which is displayed in the Gospel, as undoubtedly they did; and since then all this comfort was enjoyed by them, through the Gospel the apostle preached to them, the argument from hence must be strong upon them, to attend to what he desired of them:

if any comfort of love; in it, or from it; as from the love of God the Father, which is everlasting and unchangeable, and must be comforting, when shed abroad in the heart by the Spirit; and from the love of the Son, which is the same, and equally immovable and lasting, and which passeth knowledge; and from the love of the Spirit, in applying the grace of the Father, and of the Son, whereby he becomes a glorifier of them, and a comforter of his people; and from the love of the saints to one another, which renders their communion with each other comfortable, pleasant, and delightful: or the apostle's sense is, if they had so much love for him, as to wish and desire he might be comforted in his present situation, and that they would be willing to make use of any methods to comfort him, then he desires this; and this is all he desires, mutual love, peace, harmony, and agreement among themselves:

if any fellowship of the spirit: of the spirit of one saint with another; if there is such a thing as an union of spirits, an oneness of souls, a tasting of each other's spirits, and a communion with one another, then care should be taken to keep this unity of the Spirit, in the bond of peace, Eph 4:3, or if there is any fellowship of the Holy Spirit of God, any communion with him, any such thing as a witnessing of him to, and with our spirits, or as fellowship with the Father and the Son by him, and saints are baptized into one body by one Spirit, and have been made to drink of the same Spirit, 1Co 12:13, then it becomes them to be of one mind, and to stand fast in one Spirit, Phi 1:27,

if any bowels and mercies; as there are in God, and in the Lord Jesus Christ, moving towards the saints; or such as become Christians, who, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, ought to put on bowels of mercies to one another; express the most hearty, inward, tender, and compassionate concern for each other's welfare, temporal and spiritual. Thus the apostle premises the most moving and pathetic arguments, leading on to the exhortations and advice, to love, harmony, and unity, given in Phi 2:2.