Thinking through Paul: A Survey of His Life, Letters, and Theology by Todd D. Still & Bruce W. Longenecker

Author:Todd D. Still & Bruce W. Longenecker [Still, Todd D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2014-09-09T00:00:00+00:00

1. The road itself, eventually 700 miles long, bore the name of Gnaios Egnatios, the Roman proconsul who commissioned its construction. Begun in 146 BC, when completed in 120 BC it ran from Byzantium in the east to Dyrrachium in the west.

2. Writing near the end of the first century AD, the writer of 1 Clement reports that Paul wore chains on seven occasions. This claim, however, almost assuredly has more to do with numerical symbolism (the number seven signaling completion or perfection) than with actual history.

3. On this famed guard, see further Sandra Bingham, The Praetorian Guard: A History of Rome’s Elite Special Forces (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2013).

4. See further Todd D. Still, Philippians & Philemon (SHBC 27b; Macon, GA: Smyth & Helwys, 2011), 44; Peter Oakes, Philippians: From People to Letter (SNTSMS 110; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 77 – 102.

5. Polycarp, To the Philippians 3.2.

6. Gordon D. Fee, Paul’s Letter to the Philippians (NICNT; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995), 197.

7. Wayne A. Meeks, “The Man from Heaven in Philippians,” in The Future of Early Christianity (ed. Birger A. Pearson; Minneapolis: Fortress, 1991), 333.

8. These quotations are drawn from Mark J. Edwards, ed., Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians (ACCS 7; Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1999), 243, 245.

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