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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Philippians 4:11 - 4:11
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I have learned - The I in Greek is emphatical. I leave it to others if they will, to be discontented. I, for my part, have learned, by the teaching of the Holy Spirit, and the dealings of Providence (Heb 5:8), to be content in every state.
content - The Greek, literally expresses “independent of others, and having sufficiency in one’s self.” But Christianity has raised the term above the haughty self-sufficiency of the heathen Stoic to the contentment of the Christian, whose sufficiency is not in self, but in God (2Co 3:5; 1Ti 6:6, 1Ti 6:8; Heb 13:5; compare Jer 2:36; Jer 45:5).