It was thus in measure at Philippi. And St Paul cannot rest about it. He plies them with every loving argument for the unity of love, ranging from the plea of attachment to himself up to the supreme plea of "the mind that was in Christ Jesus" when He came down from heaven. He has begun to address them thus already. And in the wonderful passage now before us he is to develope his appeal to the utmost, in the Lord's name. Ver. 1. +If therefore+, in connexion with this theme of holy oneness of love and life, +there is such a thing as comfort+, encouragement (_paraklesis_), +in Christ+, drawn from our common union with the Lord, if +there is such a thing as love's consolation+, the tender cheer which love can give to a beloved one by meeting his inmost wish, +if there is such a thing as Spirit-sharing+,[1] +if there are such things as hearts+ (_splagchna_, _viscera_) +and compassions+, feelings of human tenderness and attachment, through which I may appeal to you simply as a friend, and a friend in trouble, Ver. 2. calling for your pity; +make full my joy+, drop this last ingredient into the cup of my thankful happiness for you, and bring the wine to the brim, +by being[2] of the same mind+ (_phronma_, feeling, attitude of mind), +feeling+ (_echontes_) +the same love+, "the same" on all sides, soul and soul together (_sympsychoi_) +in a+ Ver. 3. +mind which is unity itself+.[3] +Nothing+ (_muden_, implying of course prohibition) +in the way of+ (_kata_) +personal or party spirit;[4] rather+ (_alla_), +as regards your+ (_tu_) +humblemindedness+, your view of yourselves learnt at the feet of your Saviour, +reckon[5] each other superior to yourselves+; as assuredly you will do, with a logic true to the soul, when each sees himself, the personality he knows best, in the light of eternal holiness Ver. 4. and love. +Not to your own+ interests +look+ (_skopountes_), +each circle of you, but each circle[6] to those+ Ver. 5. +of others also. Have this mind+ (_phroneite_) in +you+, this moral attitude in each soul, +which+ was, and is,[7] +also in Christ Jesus+, (in that eternal Messiah whom I name already with His human Name, JESUS; for in the will of His Father, and in the unity of His own Person, it was as it were His Name already Ver. 6. from everlasting,) +who in God's manifested Being[8] subsisting+,[9] _seeming_ divine, because He _was_ divine, in the full sense of Deity, in that eternal world, +reckoned it no plunderer's prize[10] to be on an equality with God+;[11] no, He viewed His possession of the fulness of the Eternal Nature as securely and inalienably His own, and _so_ He dealt with it for our sakes with a sublime and _restful_ remembrance of others; far from thinking of it as for Himself alone, as one who claimed it unlawfully would have done,