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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Philippians 3:19 - 3:19
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destruction - everlasting at Christ’s coming. Phi 1:28, “perdition”; the opposite word is “Savior” (Phi 3:20).
end - fixed doom.
whose god is their belly - (Rom 16:18); hereafter to be destroyed by God (1Co 6:13). In contrast to our “body” (Phi 3:21), which our God, the Lord Jesus, shall “fashion like unto His glorious body.” Their belly is now pampered, our body now wasted; then the respective states of both shall be reversed.
glory is in their shame - As “glory” is often used in the Old Testament for God (Psa 106:20), so here it answers to “whose God,” in the parallel clause; and “shame” is the Old Testament term contemptuously given to an idol (Jdg 6:32, Margin). Hos 4:7 seems to be referred to by Paul (compare Rom 1:32). There seems no allusion to circumcision, as no longer glorious, but a shame to them (Phi 3:2). The reference of the immediate context is to sensuality, and carnality in general.
mind earthly things - (Rom 8:5). In contrast to Phi 3:20; Col 3:2.