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If by any means I may attain (ei pōs katantēsō). Not an expression of doubt, but of humility (Vincent), a modest hope (Lightfoot). For ei pōs, see note on Rom 1:10; and note on Rom 11:14 where parazēlōsō can be either future indicative or aorist subjunctive like katantēsō here (see subjunctive katalabō in Phi 3:12), late compound verb katantaō.
Resurrection (exanastasin). Late word, not in lxx, but in Polybius and one papyrus example. Apparently Paul is thinking here only of the resurrection of believers out from the dead and so double ex (ten exanastasin tēn ek nekrōn). Paul is not denying a general resurrection by this language, but emphasizing that of believers.