See also:

• EPISTLE

EPISTLE TO THE See also:

• EPISTLE TO THE PHILIPPIANS

PHILIPPIANS  , 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
• PAUL (PAULUS)

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

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

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 .