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Php 3:4. Καίπερ ἐγὼ, although I) The singular is included in the preceding plural: we glory, and I glory, although I, etc.; but because the discourse proceeds from the plural to the singular, I is interposed and is added, because the Philippians had been Gentiles. Paul was of the circumcision. Comp. Rev 17:8, note.-ἔχων, having) for the construction depends on those things which go before[34]: Having, not using.-εἴτις ἄλλος, if any other) a word of universal comprehension: other is sweetly redundant; comp. note ad Gregorii Neocaes. Paneg. p. 195.-ἐγὼ μᾶλλον, I more) i.e. ἐγὼ μᾶλλον πέποιθα, I have more ground for being confident. He speaks of his former feeling with a Mimesis[35] of those who gloried in such outward carnalities; see the following verse.
[34] ἐγώ being included in the ἡμεῖς-οἱ-πεποιθότες, constructed with the verb ἐσμεν.-ED.
[35] An allusion, in the way of imitation, to his opponents’ mode of stating their grounds of confidence.-ED.