Vincent Word Studies - Philippians 2:13 - 2:13

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Vincent Word Studies - Philippians 2:13 - 2:13


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For it is God which worketh in you

Completing and guarding the previous statement. In you, not among you. Worketh (ἐνεργῶν). See on Mar 6:14; see on Jam 5:16. The verb means effectual working. In the active voice, to be at work. In the middle voice, as here (used only by James and Paul, and only of things), to display one's activity; show one's self-operative. Compare Eph 3:20.

To will and to do (τὸ θέλειν καὶ τὸ ἐνεργεῖν)

Lit., the willing and the doing. Both are from God, and are of one piece, so that he who wills inevitably does. The willing which is wrought by God, by its own nature and pressure, works out into action. “We will, but God works the will in us. We work, therefore, but God works the working in us” (Augustine). For to do, Rev. substitutes to work, thus preserving the harmony in the Greek between “God which worketh” and “to work.”

Of His good pleasure (ὑπὲρ τῆς εὐδοκίας)

Rev., better, for His, etc. Lit., for the sake of; in order to subserve. See 1Ti 2:4.