Filippenzen 4:2

2 Ik vermaan Euodia, en ik vermaan Syntyche, dat zij eensgezind zijn in den Heere.

Filippenzen 4:2 Meaning and Commentary

Philippians 4:2

I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche
Two women, who were members of this church at Philippi, and who seem to have been at variance; either with each other, on account of some temporal and civil things, as often is the case of the dear children of God, who fall out by the way; and it becomes a very hard and difficult task to reconcile them, though as here entreated in the most tender and importunate manner to agree: or else with the church, having entertained some sentiments in religion different from it; being drawn aside by false teachers from the simplicity of the Gospel, and their steadfastness in the faith; and this may rather be thought to be the meaning, since the apostle would scarcely take notice of a private difference in so public a manner, and since this exhortation follows so closely the former: that they be of the same mind in the Lord;
either that they agree together, and be reconciled to each other, considering the relation they stood in to one another, and to the Lord; or that they become of the same mind, and embrace the same truths, and profess and maintain the same principles the church did; and so the Arabic version renders it, "that ye entertain one and the same opinion concerning the faith of the Lord".

Filippenzen 4:2 In-Context

1 Zo dan, mijn geliefde en zeer gewenste broeders, mijn blijdschap en kroon, staat alzo in den Heere, geliefden!

2 Ik vermaan Euodia, en ik vermaan Syntyche, dat zij eensgezind zijn in den Heere.

3 En ik bid ook u, gij mijn oprechte metgezel, wees dezen vrouwen behulpzaam, die met mij gestreden hebben in het Evangelie, ook met Clemens, en de andere mijn medearbeiders, welker namen zijn in het boek des levens.

4 Verblijdt u in den Heere te allen tijd; wederom zeg ik: Verblijdt u.

5 Uw bescheidenheid zij allen mensen bekend. De Heere is nabij.