4:15 And as you Philippians know, at the beginning of my gospel ministry, when I left Macedonia, no church shared with me in this matter of giving and receiving except you alone. 4:16 For even in Thessalonica 4 on more than one occasion 5 you sent something for my need.
1 tn Grk “you, and when.” A new sentence was started here in the translation.
2 tn If the participle ἐλθόντες (elqonte") is taken as temporal rather than adjectival, the translation would be, “for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, fully supplied my needs” (similar to NASB).
3 tn Grk “needs, and I kept.” A new sentence was started here in the translation.
4 map For location see JP1-C1; JP2-C1; JP3-C1; JP4-C1.
5 tn Or “several times”; Grk, “both once and twice.” The literal expression “once and twice” is frequently used as a Greek idiom referring to an indefinite low number, but more than once (“several times”); see L&N 60.70.