“ Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. ”
Let your moderation be known unto all men - That is, let it be such that others may see it. This does not mean that they were to make an ostentatious display of it, but that it should be such a c...
(4) Let your (e) moderation be known unto all men. (5) The Lord [is] at hand. (4) The second is, that taking all things in good part, they behave themselves moderately with all men. (e) Your quiet...
Php_4:4-7. Joy and Peace. Once again Paul sounds his dominant note of joy. For the fifth and last time he refers to the return of Christ ( cf. Php_1:6; Php_1:10 , Php_2:16, Php_3:20). He deprecates...
moderation . forbearance. Greek. epiekes: adjective only here; 1 Timothy 3:3 . Titus 3:2 . Jam 3:17. 1 Peter 2:18 . known. App-132. unto . to, men. App-123. Lord. App-98.
5 Your moderation This may be explained in two ways. We may understand him as bidding them rather give up their right, than that any one should have occasion to complain of their sharpness o...
DISCOURSE: 2159 CHRISTIAN MODERATION Philippians 4:5 . Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand . TO lay the foundation of a sinner’s hope, is the first duty of a minister...
Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. Let your moderation be known - The word επιεικες is of very extensive signification; it means the same as επιεικεια, mildness, patien...
Let your moderation be known— Let your meekness, &c.— The Lord is nigh you. Both the parts of this verse shew, that St. Paul considers the Philippians in a state of persecution. Gentleness,...
Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. Moderation, х to ( G3588 ) epieikees ( G1933 ), from eikoo ( G1502 ), 'to yield,' whence yieldingness (Trench); o...
Final Charge. Acknowledgement of Philippian Bounty VI. Closing Exhortations ( Philippians 4:1-9 ) § 15. Philippians 4:1-3 . With heightened feeling St. Paul resumes the vein of exhortation comme...
(4-7) St. Paul returns once more to the exhortation to joy so characteristic of this Epistle. But it is a joy in the sense of the Lord’s being at hand. Hence it turns at once to thanksgiving and pray...
Chapter 17 PEACE AND JOY. Philippians 4:2-7 (R.V.) DR. LIGHTFOOT has observed that the passages in the Acts of the Apostles which record the Macedonian experiences of Paul have a good deal to...
Inspiring Exhortations Philippians 4:1-9 What a strong and faithful heart was Paul's! Poor and despised though he was, he had both joys and crowns of which no hostile force could deprive him. H...
Passing from particular to general instruction, the apostle first enjoined the grace of rejoicing. Twice he repeated his injunction. Moreover, he charged the Philippians that forbearance toward all m...
(4) Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. (5) Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. (6) Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication w...
Let your moderation be known unto all men ,.... The Vulgate Latin reads, "your modesty". The Syriac and Arabic versions, "your meekness", or "humility"; graces which accompany moderation, and are ve...
Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. Ver. 5. Let your moderation ] Or equality, such as was that of David, Psalms 26:12 . The scales of his mind hung equal, giving h...
Rejoice in the Lord alway For, as believers in Christ, as children and heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ of the heavenly, incorruptible inheritance, and as persons assured that all things,...
His heart overflowing at the contemplation of such an Object, the apostle in Ch.4 dwells upon the sufficiency of the Lord Jesus to supremely satisfy the soul. If in Ch.3 Christ is his Object in Glory...
Various Exhortations. A. D. 62. 1 Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy...
Let your moderation be known; exercising an even temper of mind, in governing the sensual appetite, with modesty, patience, and gentleness, in opposition to all impetuousness and inordinacy of affe...
Final Words Of Admonition And Guidance ( Philippians 4:1-9 ). Approaching the end of his letter on the glorious note found in the previous verses Paul now takes them back in Philippians 4:1 to t...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Philippians 4:5 . Let your moderation be known. —This moderation or forbearance is the very opposite of the spirit which will “cavil on the ninth part of a hair” i...
Philippians 4:4-6 A Life of Prayer a Life of Peace. St. Paul in these words bids the Christians of Philippi to carry all their sorrows and fears to the throne of Christ. He specially bids them re...
Philippians 4:1 . Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved. It is a great joy to a minister, as it was to the apostle P...
Philippians 4:6 . Be careful for nothing let your requests be made known unto God. Not that we are to abandon all care, or become careless, about the things of the present life, for that would be...
EXPOSITION Philippians 4:1 Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown. The apostle here, as in 1 Corinthians 15:58 , urges the hope of a glorious resurrectio...
The rejoicing of the Christians Especially in Their Fellowship with Christ. The care-free joy of believers:
1 Corinthians 6:7 ; 1 Corinthians 7:29-31 ; 1 Corinthians 8:13 ; 1 Corinthians 9:25 ; 1 Peter 1:11 ; 1 Peter 4:7 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:2-4 ; 2 Peter 3:8-14 ; 2 Thessalonians 2:2 ; Hebrews 10:...
Tender Words from a Prison Cell Philippians 4:1-8 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There is, perhaps, no Epistle that so beautifully displays the inner life-throbs of Paul, as does the Epistle to the Philip...
Let your gentleness — Yieldingness, sweetness of temper, the result of joy in the Lord. Be known — By your whole behaviour. To all men — Good and bad, gentle and froward. Those of the roughest temp...