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Php 3:10. Τοῦ γνῶναι, that I may know) The genitive, τοῦ, is connected with πίστει, faith; and resumes the mention of τῆς γνώσεως, knowledge, made at Php 3:8, and now to be more fully explained.-αὐτὸν) Him.-δύναμιν, the power) Rom 1:4.-τῆς ἀναστάσεως αὐτοῦ) It is consonant to the order of the discourse that the verbal noun ἀνάστασις should be taken, not for the resurrection from the dead, which is expressed in Php 3:11 with a change of the word [ἐξανάστασιν], but of the rising of Christ, Heb 7:14 [The Lord sprang out of Juda], as the verb ἀναστῆσαι is used in Act 13:32, where see the note [ἀνάστησας Ἰησοῦν-“quum suscitavit et nobis prœsentem exhibuit;” adding that this absolute ‘suscitatio’ is distinct from the “suscitatio e mortuis”]. For ἀνάστασις is not always put for the resurrection of the dead, Luk 2:34 [ἀνάστασιν πολλῶν ἐν τῷ Ἰσραὴλ, the spiritual rising again, etc., not their actual resurrection], (Luk 7:16); Lam 3:63; Zep 3:8; and truly the very rising or coming of the Messiah has its own power, on the knowledge of which believers depend, 2Pe 1:16.-τὴν κοινωνίαν, the fellowship) Gal 2:20.-συμμορφούμενος, being conformed [“made conformable”]) The nominative case after the infinitive is frequent with the Greeks, although here it may be construed with the following finite verb [καταντήσω]. Believers are conformed by faith. Imitation is not excluded, but most assuredly follows after [conformation by faith], Gal 3:1, note; comp. σύμμορφον, conformed, fashioned like, Php 3:21.