Abstract

GONZAGA, WALDECIR  and  FILHO, VÍCTOR SILVA ALMEIDA. Use of the Old Testament in Paul's Epistle to the Philippians. Cuest. teol. [online]. 2020, vol.47, n.108, pp.1-18.  Epub Apr 08, 2021. ISSN 0120-131X.  https://doi.org/10.18566/cueteo.v47n108.a01.

This article considers Paul's Epistle to the Philippians as an opportunity for teaching, incentive and motivation, distinctive contributions of the Apostle to the Gentiles (Rom. 11: 13). Thus, the research highlights these features based on the use of the texts of the Old Testament according to the method developed in G. K. Beale's Manual do uso do Antigo Testamento no Novo Testamento and R. B. Hays' Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul. Following the method used to identify the use of the Old Testament in the New Testament, the article aims at understanding how Paul appropriated and interpreted the allusions and echoes of the ancient texts that left a mark on him and influenced his writing. It also aims at understanding how Paul grasped these passages and how they contributed to and influenced the apostle in the moments when the letter was written. He always re-interpreted those texts, in the everyday life of his community, according to the concrete experience of the life of the Church in Philippi. Finally, it also carefully considers two further things: the analysis of the Christological Hymn (Phil. 2: 10-11) and the issue concerning the unity of the epistle, which is regarded as authentically Pauline. Therefore, the article helps to understand how the New Testament appropriates the Old Testament, basing itself on the LXX and not the Hebrew Bible, which occurs not only in the Pauline epistles, but in the whole New Testament.

Keywords : Philippians; Old Testament; New Testament; Pauline Epistle; Quotations; Allusions; Echoes; Hebrew Text; Septuagint.

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