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This book consists of a “Kampfbrief” combined with two other fragments, per a paper by Sellew that cites the Epistle to the Laodecians’s heavy borrowings from it. The above segment of this book begins with its warning against “dogs,” “evil workers,” and “the concision,” and goes on to warn against “confidence in the flesh.” Another part of this “Letter of Joy” speaks of Jesus as thinking “it not robbery to be equal with God” and making “himself of (*) no reputation” in a key passage on kenosis dubbed the “Christ Hymn.” This “prison epistle" is addressed to a city where Paul and Silas had converted a jailer. The claim that “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me” appears in this epistle, which provided the title for Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling. For 10 points, name this Pauline epistle to a Macedonian city, (10[1])traditionally placed between Ephesians and Colossians. ■END■

ANSWER: The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Philippians [or the Letter to the Philippians] (The Philip Sellew paper referenced is “Laodiceans and the Philippians Fragments Hypothesis.” The conversion of the Philippian jailer is detailed in Acts 16. Fear and Trembling’s title is from Philippians 2:12.)
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