I know how (οιδα). Followed by the infinitive οιδα has this sense. So here twice, with ταπεινουσθα, to be humbled, from ταπεινος, …

I know both how to be abased. To be in circumstances of want.

And I know how to abound. To have an abundance. He had been …

Everywhere and in all things.—The original has no such distinction of the two words. It is, in all and everything; in lif…

Every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need ([Reference Philippians …

Paul hastens to make clear that though he undoubtedly had a need, it was not relief of this need that primarily concerned him. He had “learned to b…

I know both how to be abased There follows here a distinction, with the view of intimating that he has a mind adapted to bear any kind of…

I know both how to be abased;
Or "humbled"; to be treated with indignity and contempt, to be trampled upon by man, t…

It is a good work to support and help a good minister in trouble. The nature of true Christian sympathy is not only to feel concern for our friends…

In his commentary, the Apostle first shows how the faithful should conduct themselves regarding the future. Here, he commends them for the past ben…