In the words of the Apostle Paul,
Peace and grace to you

I apologize for my long absence.. I have been in a long and hard struggle to get back into school. After what seems an eternity I was finally able to get financial support to enter South Western College here in Az. It is a Bible college where I am majoring in Biblical Interpretation. I am unfortunately already having issues with the course..

One of my assignments is to take my passage (Philippians 2:3-8) and type 50 observations about the passage. The observations must be textual and with no attempt at application or interpretation.. As described by my professor C.L. Mitchell, I am to be like Sherlock Holmes and just investigate and write out observations. They can be as detailed as I want, but they can't be so vague that the idea is not clearly seen.. Here are a couple examples another person did from another passage...

C.L. Mitchell
Biblical Interpretation
1 Peter 1:3-7
1. In verse 3, the possessive pronoun “His” refers to God the father.
2. In verse 3, the possessive pronoun “his” shows God’s ownership of “great mercy.”
3. In verse 3, God’s mercy is the cause of being born in again.
4. In verse 3, the preposition “through” connects living hope to the resurrection.
5. In verse 3, the word “living” is an adjective to the word “hope.”
6. In verse 3, the third time the word “to” is used it is used as a preposition that connects being born again to a living hope.
7. In verse 3, the pronoun “us” refers to the audience specified in verse 1 as aliens.
8. In verse 3, the word “great” is an adjective to the word “mercy.”
9. In verse 3, the possessive pronoun “our” describes Jesus Christ as belonging to the audience who as revealed earlier in verse 1, are the “aliens.”
10. In verse, 3 the proposition “from” demonstrates the relationship of the resurrection of Jesus Christ to the dead.
11. In verse 3, the auxiliary verb “has” is past progressive tense, so it is ongoing.
12. In verse 3, the Father is not only the father but the God of Jesus Christ as well.
13. In verse 3, “to be born again” is in past tense but is active.
14. In verse 3, the phrase “blessed be” is a statement and command that is ongoing.
15. Verses 3-5 are one complex sentence.
16. In verse 4, a list contains four descriptions of the inheritance.
17. In verse 4, the word pronoun “you” refers to the audience of aliens from verse 1.


These examples are a little more "in depth" than what I need at the moment, but eventually I will need to be able to write another 30 observations that are at that "depth" so to speak.. here are a few that I was able, (I'm not sure if they are correct or not) to piece together.. I am very poor with language and grammar..

50 observations of Philippians Chapter 2 verse 3-8


1. In chapter 2 verse 3 the author is giving the audience a command by saying “Do nothing from selfishness…”
2. In chapter 2 verse 3 the author uses the conjunction “or” showing the audience that the command is conditional.
3. In chapter 2 verse 3 the author uses the conjunction “but” to connect the first and second pieces of the sentence.
4. In chapter 2 verse 3 the author gives a second command telling the audience to “regard others…”
5. In chapter 2 verse 3 “humility of mind” describes to the audience how they are to regard others.
6. In chapter 2 verse 3 the audience is more than one person as shown with the word “yourselves”
7. In chapter 2 verse 4 the author issues another command of “do not merely look…”
8. In chapter 2 verse 4 the object of the command in the first part of the verse is the“interests” of both the audience and others.

Have any of you had similar courses at school or are any of you good with language and grammar that could help me out? I would greatly appreciate it..

Thank you

Clint