Philippians 4:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

I am instructed— "I find myself initiated, as it were, into this great mystery." This is well known to be the peculiar sense of the word μεμοημαι; and it seems as if the Apostle, by the choice of this peculiar word, meant to intimate to his Greek readers, how much he esteemed the good dispositions of mind here spoken of, beyond all their boasted instructions, whatever mysteries they might be supposed to contain. See Doddridge, Grotius, and Stockius.

Philippians 4:12

12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.