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5. ἐπὶ τῇ κοινωνίᾳ ὑμῶν. “Over (on account of) your fellowship,” your making yourselves one with me, whether in deed or in spirit. See further just below, Php 1:7 and notes. The immediate but by no means whole reference was no doubt to their generous gifts of money; cp. Php 4:10-19.
εἰς τὸ εὐαγγέλιον. “For the Gospel”; i.e. for its furtherance. For the phrase cp. 2Co 2:12, and below, Php 2:22. For εὐαγγέλιον denoting practically the work of evangelization cp. 2Co 8:18; Gal 2:7; below, Php 2:22, Php 4:3; Php 4:15; 1Th 3:2.
ἀπὸ τῆς πρώτης ἡμέρας. On the reading, see critical note. If ἀπὸ πρ. ἡμ. is read, cp. Act 10:30; Act 20:18, for such absence of the article; it is perhaps an unconscious nuance of idiom, refusing analysis. See Lightfoot however on this verse: “the article is frequently omitted, because the numeral is sufficiently definite in itself.” With this assertion of the Philippians’ original and steady sympathy cp. ch. Php 4:15-16.