On Philippians · Lecture 012
On Philippians 12
A lecture by Fr. Athanasios Mytilinaios · Δείτε στα Ελληνικά
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Summary
Fr Athanasios Mytilinaios continues his commentary on Philippians 3, examining Paul’s polemic against Judaizing Christians who demanded circumcision before baptism and made ethnic Jewish identity a condition of salvation. Answering their confidence in the flesh, Paul lists his own superior credentials only to show that external privileges are worthless beside gaining Christ: circumcised on the eighth day, born within the covenant people rather than descended from Ishmael or Esau, from the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews, and a Pharisee of the stricter party unlike the Sadducees. Mytilinaios treats Paul’s persecution of the Church as misguided zeal for the ancestral faith rather than the envy of an Annas or a Caiaphas, and closes by distinguishing sincere error, healed through repentance, from hardened malice.
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