<p>4:14 <i>However you did well in that you had fellowship with my affliction</i>- Fellowship is not simply an on paper agreement about theological propositions, sharing membership in the same church or fellowship. It means feeling in common with an afflicted brother and therefore doing something in response; or as :15 puts it, a fellowship in giving and receiving. &quot;My affliction&quot; may have specific reference to the &quot;affliction&quot; which had been brought upon the imprisoned Paul by false brethren seeking to create &quot;affliction&quot; for him in prison (1:16 s.w.). The Philippians would have been amongst those who sought to help him out of that situation (see on 1:17). They suffered his afflictions with him, just as he and we all share in the afflictions of the crucified Lord Jesus. If we ask how exactly we do that in concrete terms, the answer is that we fellowship with the afflictions of His body, which is the members of His church.</p>