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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Philippians 3:12 - 3:12
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Translate, “Not that I,” etc. (I do not wish to be understood as saying that, etc.).
attained - “obtained,” namely, a perfect knowledge of Christ, and of the power of His death, and fellowship of His sufferings, and a conformity to His death.
either were already perfect - “or am already perfected,” that is, crowned with the garland of victory, my course completed, and perfection absolutely reached. The image is that of a race course throughout. See 1Co 9:24; Heb 12:23. See Trench [Greek Synonyms of the New Testament].
I follow after - “I press on.”
apprehend ... apprehended - “If so be that I may lay hold on that (namely, the prize, Phi 3:14) for which also I was laid hold on by Christ” (namely, at my conversion, Son 1:4; 1Co 13:12).
Jesus - omitted in the oldest manuscripts. Paul was close to “apprehending” the prize (2Ti 4:7, 2Ti 4:8). Christ the Author, is also the Finisher of His people’s “race.”