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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 390 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PHILIPPIANS, EPISTLE TO THE

PHILIPPIANS, See also:
EPISTLE
EPISTLE TO THE , a See also:

BOOK

book of the New Testament. Communications had already passed between the Christians of See also:

PHILIPPI (Turk. Filibejik)

Philippi and See also:

Paul, not only when he was at Thessalonica (iv. 15-16), but at some subsequent See also:

period (iv. 18), when Epaphroditus had brought him a See also:

PRESENT

present of See also:

MONEY

money from them. It is possible that this See also:

GIFT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. die Gift, gift, das Gift, poison, formed from the Teut. stem gab-, to give, cf. Dutch geven, Ger. geben; in O. Eng. the word appears with initial y, the guttural of later English is due to Scandinavian influence)

gift was accompanied by a See also:

LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

letter.

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