Philippians - Corps Notes - 1984

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: 18 Starts parenthesis, figure of speech parembole. Parenthesis complete in itself. walk. Normal word. (Aram.) adds word, “otherwise”. Many walk otherwise. cross. figure of speech metalepsis. Double metonymy. Cross put for death which is put for it’s accomplishments. 3 : 19 Whose end is destruction. Our goal is the hope of the high calling. Theirs is the opposite, destruction. belly. figure of speech synecdoche. Part put for whole. They worship themselves, their belly. Also in Romans 16:18. Serving the belly in Greek literature was a sign of weakness. Cyclops in Euripides said, “My flocks which I sacrificed to no one but myself 53 and not to gods and to this my belly the greatest of gods. For to eat and drink each day and to give oneself no trouble, this is the god of wise men, whose glory is in their shame.” They glory in things that they ought to be ashamed about. God put this verse i