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11. πεπληρωμένοι. The perfect participle seems to anticipate “the day.” He sees the Philippians as they will be then, “having been filled,” and therefore then full; trees whose every branch had put forth, in their earthly life, “the fruit” described Gal 5:22-23.—On the reading, see critical note.—The accusative is “of reference.”—Here, as in Gal., l.c., the singular (καρπόν) is significant. The results of grace are manifold, yet as to their material they are one; and each is necessary to the fulness of the rest.
δικαιοσύνης. So Jam 3:18. And in LXX. see Pro 11:30; Pro 13:2; Amo 6:12. The “fruit” is a result yielded by “righteousness.” “Righteousness” is here probably the rightness of the regenerate will, regarded as in accord with Divine law. But there is a possible reference also, in a Pauline writing (see further on ch. Php 3:9), to that aspect of the word so prominent in the Roman Epistle, satisfactoriness to the law in respect of the atoning Satisfaction of Christ; so that the “fruit” would be the outcome not only of a renewed will but of an accepted person.
διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ. Who is alike, by His merit, the procuring Cause of the new life, and so of its fruits, and, by His Life, the true Basis of it.
εἰς δόξαν κτλ. The true goal of the whole process of salvation. “To Him are all things; to Whom be glory for ever. Amen” (Rom 11:36).—On the use of θεός here, distinctively, as often, for the Eternal Father, see above on Php 1:2.