Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadJohn Bengel Commentary - Philippians 3:20 - 3:20
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
Php 3:20. Ἡμῶν, our) whom you have as a type or example [Php 3:17].-γὰρ, for) This gives the reason why the Philippians ought to imitate them.-τὸ πολίτευμα) the community, country, city, or state: for ὑπάρχει, has its existence, follows. Therefore it is the antecedent to ἐξ οὗ, from which.[49]-σωτῆρα, the Saviour) This furnishes the ground on which we rest our expectation, 2Ti 4:18.-Κυρίον, the Lord) now exalted, ch. Php 2:11. This furnishes the confirmation of this expectation.
[49] τόπον, implied in οὐρανοῖς, might seem otherwise to be the word to which οὗ refers.-ED.