Php_3:12-14. Protest, that in what he had said in Php_3:7-11 he had not expressed the fanciful idea of a Christian perfection already attained; but that, on the contrary, his efforts are still ever directed forward towards that aim—whereby a mirror for self-contemplation is held up before the Philippians in respect to the moral conceit which disturbed their unity (Php_2:2-4), in order to stir them up to a like humility and diligence as a condition of Christian perfection (Php_3:15).