Romans 16:20,24 And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen...

2 Corinthians 13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.

CONCLUDING REMARKS ON THE EPISTLE TO THE PHILIPPIANS.

The Church at Philippi in Macedonia was planted by the Apostle Paul about A.D.

53, (Ac.

16:9-40;) and it appears he visited them again, A.D.

60, though no particulars are recorded concerning that visit, (Ac.

20:6.) The Philippians were greatly attached to Paul, and testified their affection by sending him supplies, even when labouring for other churches, (ch.

Philippians 4:15 Now you Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia...

,

Philippians 4:16 For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to my necessity.

;

2 Corinthians 11:9 And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man...

;) and when they heard that he was under confinement at Rome, they sent Epaphroditus, one of their pastors, to him with a present, lest he should want necessaries during his imprisonment, (ch.

2:25;

2 Corinthians 4:10,14-18 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body...

.) The more immediate occasion of the Epistle was the return of Epaphroditus, by whom the apostle sent it as a grateful acknowledgment of their kindness; which occurred towards the close of his first imprisonment, about the end of A.D.

62, or the commencement of

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