I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.
I have strength for all things, not merely for being abased or abounding. After particular examples comes his universal claim, how triumphantly, yet how humbly! It is by living union with Him who is my strength.
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He cannot mean this without limit: Paul was no omnipotent being. He means he could endure every state, perform every duty as Christian and apostle, bear all afflictions and even cruel death for Christ. All this, not by his own strength, he knew human weakness better than anyone, but by Christ's grace alone.
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Paul had a grateful spirit, and though the Philippians owed him their very souls, he speaks of their gift as if it were generous charity rather than a just debt. What they sent was small, yet he records it for all ages to read; their kindness shall be a memorial wherever this epistle goes. They alone helped him when he left Macedonia, when no other church did so.
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Commenting on Philippians 4:10-19