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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Philippians 4:18

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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4:18 Epaphroditus (see also 2:25-30) had carried the gifts from Philippi. • Their gifts were a sweet-smelling sacrifice: In the Old Testament, acceptable offerings were a pleasant fragrance to God (see Lev 1:9, 13, 17; 2:2, 9; 3:5, 16; cp. Rom 12:1; Eph 5:2).
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