The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.

Romans 16:20,24 And the God of peace crush Satan under your feet speedily. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. . . .

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53, (Ac.

16:9-40;) and it appears he visited them again, A.D.

60, though no particulars are recorded concerning that visit, (Ac.

20:6.) The Philippians were greatly attached to Paul, and testified their affection by sending him supplies, even when labouring for other churches, (ch.

Philippians 4:15 And you also know, O Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but you only.

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Philippians 4:16 For unto Thessalonica also you sent once and again for my use.

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2 Corinthians 11:9 And, when I was present with you and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was wanting to me, the brethren supplied who came from Macedonia. And in all things I have kept myself from being burthensome to you: and so I will keep myself.

;) and when they heard that he was under confinement at Rome, they sent Epaphroditus, one of their pastors, to him with a present, lest he should want necessaries during his imprisonment, (ch.

2:25;

2 Corinthians 4:10,14-18 Always bearing about in our body the mortification of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our bodies. . . .

.) The more immediate occasion of the Epistle was the return of Epaphroditus, by whom the apostle sent it as a grateful acknowledgment of their kindness; which occurred towards the close of his first imprisonment, about the end of A.D.

62, or the commencement of

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