(1) In this epistle St. Paul commends and exhorts the Philippians to continue in the right faith and to increase in love. Because the false apostles and false teachers of works always harm the faith, he warns them against them and shows them various preachers, some good, some bad, also himself and his disciples, Timothy and Epaphroditum; this he does in the first [and] second chapter.
2. in the third, he rejects the faithless and
Human righteousness, as taught and held by the false apostles, sets himself as an example, who lived gloriously in such righteousness, and yet now holds nothing of it, for the sake of Christ's righteousness. For that only makes the belly a god, and enemies of the cross of Christ.
In the fourth, he exhorts them to peace and good outward behavior toward one another, thanking them for the gift they have sent him.