and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Christ is my righteousness, and I stake everything on winning Him, as a runner strains for the prize, as a fugitive reaches the city of refuge. My own works amount to nothing; only His perfect righteousness, received by faith, can make me safe before God's judgment.
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Commenting on Philippians 3:9-14
If by any means I, might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. Not in a figurative sense, the resurrection from the death of sin to a life of grace, of which Christ is the efficient cause, for this the apostle had attained to; unless the consummation of that spiritual life, in perfect holiness, should be intended, than which nothing was more desirable by him...
Verse 11. If by any means. Implying, that he meant to make use of the most strenuous exertions to obtain the object. I might attain unto. I may come to, or may secure this object. The resurrection of the dead. Paul believed that all the dead would be raised, ; and in this respect he would certainly attain to the resurrection of the dead, in common with all mankind.