The Expository
Times 107 en 119
Door: Tod
Still in 2008 Gevonden op: http://ext.sagepub.com/content/119/9/422.full.pdf+html
En:
Door: de Editor in 1996
Gevonden op: http://ext.sagepub.com/content/107/6/180.1.full.pdf+html
Tod Still in
2008:
In my view,
the other ‘must have’ commentary for serious students of the letter is that of
G. D. Fee. Fee’s 1995 work, published by Eerdmans in The New International Commentary on
the New Testament series, is similar in scope and detail to O’Brien (497 pages). Page
after page and passage after passage, Fee offers clear and oftentimes
compelling commentary on a letter and a letter-writer that he clearly admires.
His technically skilled and spiritually sensitive interpretation of Philippians
leaves all who labour over the letter with his aid in his debt.
De Editor in
1996:
Fee, who also
contributed the volume on 1 Corinthians, takes NIV as his text (occasionally
modified to avoid ’gender-specific language’, and sometimes questioned in the exegesis),
but provides detailed textual and grammatical notes on the Greek, so that his
commentary will be valuable for students of the original as well as the ’parish
minister and teacher of Scripture’ for whom he primarily writes. He describes
the work as a hortatory letter of
friendship’, and holds that Philippians was written by Paul from Rome in the
early 60s to his ’friends and compatriots’ in Philippi, and is a unity. On the
crux 2:6-11 he says that whether it is a ’hymn’ which had a pre-Pauline
existence is impossible to determine,
but even if it had, by including it Paul has made it his own. He accepts it as an
integral part of the letter, takes ’this’ (v. 5) as referring to vv. 2-4 (’This
mindset (i.e., that which I have just described) have among yourselves which
[was] also in Christ Jesus’), and argues that the passage refers to Christ’s
pre-existence (’As God he emptied himself). This is a good, solid, conservative
commentary, which takes full account of the work of other scholars, as the
lengthy footnotes show.
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