Offer Yourselves to God: Vocation, Work, and Ministry in Paul’s Epistles by Fee Gordon D

Author:Fee, Gordon D. [Fee, Gordon D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cascade Books, an Imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2019-12-02T16:00:00+00:00

13 . See Seneca, De Beneficiis (On Benefits ). Seneca was probably the greatest of the Stoic philosophers, and the person who inspired the emperor Nero during the five good years of his rule. 14 . For a deeper exploration of this kind of friendship, see the introduction to my commentary on Philippians in Fee, Paul’s Letter to the Philippians , 1 –53 . 15 . Phlm 1 :22 . 16 . Editor’s note: the Latin term insula literally means “island,” which suggests that these were very large structures that could occupy a city block; everything on the street flowed around them, like islands. Furthermore, an insula could refer either to the entire structure, or to an individual unit within it. 17 . Osiek and Balch, Families in the New Testament World , 18 . 18 . Philemon appears much later in the New Testament as the letters to the churches were grouped separately from those addressed to individuals. 19 . Col 4 :1 . 20 . Eph 5 :19 . 21 . Editor’s note: Fee is likely referring to the debates about the role of women in the church, as opposed to more current debates about gender identity. 22 . Eph 5 :22 –23 . 23 . Philo, On Rewards and Punishments , 125 . 24 . Ignatius, “Ephesians,” 49 .

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