To LIVE AS A CITIZEN — to discharge one's duties in the public life of a city, from politēs, citizen (the root of 'politics'). ⚠ Paul had a perfectly ordinary word for 'walk' or 'conduct yourselves' (peripateō, which he uses constantly) and deliberately did not use it at Philippians 1:27, because PHILIPPI WAS A ROMAN COLONY settled with army veterans and unusually proud of its citizenship — the magistrates who had beaten Paul there panicked the moment they learned he was a citizen (Acts 16:37-39). He tells them to exercise their citizenship worthily of the gospel, and at 3:20 lands the other half: 'our politeuma, our commonwealth, is in the heavens.' Every version smooths it to conduct or behaviour, and the local point vanishes. → first discussed at Philippians 1:27