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Cutting a Path "Paul is
in prison in Rome, writing to his beloved Philippians. He is
assuring them that the circumstances in which he finds
himself, are contributing to, rather than Hindering, the
advance of the gospel. He says in Philippians 1:12 that the
things that have happened to him have fallen out rather to
the furtherance of the gospel. The word "furtherance" is
from a Greek word...used in the 1st century to refer to a
company of wood cutters preceding the progress of an army,
cutting a road through the forest so that it might advance.
Paul says that his circumstances are divine wood cutters,
cutting a way through the opposition so that the gospel
might be advanced. Kenneth S.
Wuest, "Word Studies In The Greek New Testament" Volume
3, (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans 1979) pp. 102-103
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