Vincent Word Studies - Philippians 3:14

Vincent Word Studies - Philippians 3:14 - 3:14

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Vincent Word Studies - Philippians 3:14 - 3:14

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One thing

I do is supplied. Some supply I count, which is less appropriate, since what follows is concerned with action rather than with thinking or reckoning.

Reaching forth (ἐπεκτεινόμενος)

Only here in the New Testament. Ἑπί direction, after; ἐκ forth; τείνω to stretch. Rev., stretching forward. The metaphor is that of the footrace. Bengel says: “The eye outstrips and draws onward the hand, and the hand the foot.”