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Having argued how he might have had as great a plea for confidence of his acceptance with God as any, if it would have held from the recited particulars, he now shows, how advantageous soever they had, in the judgment of others as well as himself, been reckoned to be, before he was effectually called, yet, since the scales fell off his eyes, that he could discern the truth, he was so far from accounting them profitable, that indeed he accounted them prejudicial; so far from an advantage, that they were a damage to him, looking for salvation by Christ alone, Mat_21:31 Rom_9:30. They were but as pebbles that hide the Pearl of price, Mat_13:46; as ciphers to this figure, that can make any thing valuable, therefore by Paul preferred to all before.