Episode 37: Beware of the dogs

17/04/2025 8 min Episodio 37
Episode 37: Beware of the dogs

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To the Jews of Paul’s day, Gentiles were “dogs”—a horrible insult. But when Paul, at the beginning of chapter 3, tells the Philippians to “Beware of those dogs” (3:2), he’s referring to fellow Jews. Not only that, he was probably referring to Jewish Christians. So how could Paul say such a thing? What had they done to deserve such a tongue-lashing?