
Pressing Toward the Goal: Philippians 3:1-14
Further, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord! It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you.
Paul's tone shifted. A warning was coming.
Watch out for those dogs, those evildoers, those mutilators of the flesh.
Dogs. The insult Jews used for Gentiles—Paul turned it on the Judaizers. Evildoers. Workers of evil, not good. Mutilators—a pun on circumcision. They were cutting flesh but not accomplishing anything.
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