While we are dealing with Philippians let us consider the usage of

these two distinctive words that are found also in 2 Timothy.

`Having a desire to depart' (Phil. 1:23).

`Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your

faith' (Phil. 2:17).

These words `depart' (analuo the verb, analusis, the noun) and `offer'

(spendo) are used by Paul nowhere else than in 2 Timothy where he says:

`For I am now ready to be offered, and the time for my departure is at

hand' (2 Tim. 4:6).

What Paul desired and was willing for in Philippians, he was, in 2

Timothy, about to experience.  Philippians finds a corresponding epistle in 2

Timothy, even as Ephesians finds an echo in Colossians, and the observance of

`the words which the Holy Ghost teacheth' compels us to acknowledge that this

is so.  We did not set out to deal specifically with any epistle; this

emphasis upon Philippians has only come about by the presence of these key

words.  We pass now to other examples.

In both Ephesians and 2 Corinthians the seal and the earnest are linked

with `promise'.

`Ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest

of our inheritance' (Eph. 1:13,14).

`For all the promises of God in Him are yea, and in Him Amen, unto the

glory of God by us ... who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest

of the Spirit in our hearts' (2 Cor. 1:20,22).

An indiscriminate reading of the above passages could easily lead to

the conclusion that the promises and the seal in 2 Corinthians and in

Ephesians are all one and the same.  It will be noticed we trust that ( ... )

is inserted in our quotation of 2 Corinthians 1:20,22 and that verse 21

is omitted.  If we now add what is said in verse 21, we shall see that while

in both callings the seal of the earnest remains, the `stablishing' and the

`anointing' are additional.  Now both the establishing and the anointing

refer to the miraculous gifts which were enjoyed during the Acts period, but

have no place in the dispensation of the Mystery.  The word `establish'

translates the Greek word bebaioo and is found in connection with gifts in

Mark 16:20 `confirming the word with Signs following' and in 1 Corinthians

1:5 -8:

`That in everything ye are enriched by Him, in all utterance, and in

all knowledge; even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you: so

that ye come behind in no Gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord

Jesus Christ: Who shall also confirm you unto the end'.

In addition to the confirmation of signs and gifts, the apostle speaks

of the `anointing'.  John writing in his first epistle says of this

`But ye have an Unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things'.