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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Philippians 3:11 - 3:11
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If by any means - not implying uncertainty of the issue, but the earnestness of the struggle of faith (1Co 9:26, 1Co 9:27), and the urgent need of jealous self-watchfulness (1Co 10:12).
attain unto the resurrection of the dead - The oldest manuscripts read, “the resurrection from (out of) the dead,” namely, the first resurrection; that of believers at Christ’s coming (1Co 15:23; 1Th 4:15; Rev 20:5, Rev 20:6). The Greek word occurs nowhere else in the New Testament. “The power of Christ’s resurrection” (Rom 1:4), ensures the believer’s attainment of the “resurrection from the (rest of the) dead” (compare Phi 3:20, Phi 3:21). Compare “accounted worthy to obtain the resurrection from the dead” (Luk 20:35). “The resurrection of the just” (Luk 14:14).