And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
9. And may find them in him The verb is in the passive voice, and hence all others have rendered it, I may be found. They pass over the context, however, in a very indifferent manner, as though it had no peculiar force.
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
And be found in him,.... This is another end the apostle had in view, in counting all things loss and dung, and suffering the loss of all for Christ. Calvin, different from other interpreters, reads the words actively, "and may find in him"; and thinks the sense is, that the apostle renounced all things for Christ, that he might recover all in him: and true...