Let Us Teach Ourselves First to Follow the Commandment of the Lord' (Pol. Phil. 4.1): An Additional Note on the Commandment' as Almsgiving
In his letter to the Philippians, Polycarp of Smyrna offers a reading of 1 Timothy 6 in which he uses the term the commandment' as an apparent reference to the practice of almsgiving. Polycarp's Philippians, therefore, offers important and heretofore neglected evidence that supports recen...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2016]
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New Testament studies
Year: 2016, Volume: 62, Issue: 4, Pages: 628-636 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Timotheusbrief 1. 6,14
/ Polycarpus, Smyrnaeus -156, Epistula ad Philippenses
/ Commandment
/ Alms
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| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity NCC Social ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
1 Timothy
B the commandment B Polycarp B Almsgiving B Philippians |
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| Summary: | In his letter to the Philippians, Polycarp of Smyrna offers a reading of 1 Timothy 6 in which he uses the term the commandment' as an apparent reference to the practice of almsgiving. Polycarp's Philippians, therefore, offers important and heretofore neglected evidence that supports recent contentions that the commandment' in 1 Tim 6.14 is almsgiving. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-8145 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: New Testament studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0028688516000175 |