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Verse 7. _BUT WHAT THINGS WERE GAIN_] The _credit_ and _respect_ which
I had, as being zealously attached to the law, and to the traditions
of the elders, _I counted loss for Christ _- I saw that this...
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BUT WHAT THINGS WERE GAIN TO ME - The advantages of birth, of
education, and of external conformity to the law. “I thought these
to be gain - that is, to be of vast advantage in the matter of
salvatio...
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III. CHRIST, THE OBJECT AND THE GOAL
CHAPTER 3
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1. The true circumcision (Philippians 3:1)
2. Paul's past experience (Philippians 3:4)
3. The one passion (Philippians 3:8)...
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PHP_3:4-9. PRIVILEGE AND RENUNCIATION. The contrast between Jew and
Christian leads Paul to refer to himself in a striking
autobiographical passage, which, though brief, may be compared for
spirit and...
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THE INDESTRUCTIBLE JOY (Php_3:1)
_ 3:1 As for what remains, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. It is no
trouble to me to write the same things to you, and for you it is
safe._
Paul sets down two very...
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And yet it remains true that I have every ground of confidence from
the human point of view. If anyone has reason to think that he has
grounds for confidence in his human heritage and attainments, I h...
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GAIN. Greek. _kerdos._ See Philippians 1:21. Note the seven gains in
verses: Philippians 3:5; Philippians 3:6
COUNTED. Same as "esteem",...
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_what things_ The Greek might almost be paraphrased, "the _kind_or
_class_of things which"; including anything and everything, as ground
of reliance, other than Christ. So more fully, Philippians 3:8....
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ST PAUL’S OWN EXPERIENCE AS A CONVERTED PHARISEE, AND ITS LESSONS...
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ἈΛΛᾺ. So (or ἀλλʼ) אcBD2*, the mass of cursives, vulg syrr
copt, Aug. אAG, 17, Cyr Al6 om ἀλλὰ.
7. ἈΛΛᾺ ἍΤΙΝΑ. Almost, “But the kind of things which.”
Ἅτινα is just more than ἅ. He thinks not only of...
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ΗΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быть,
ΚΈΡΔΗ _пот. pl. от_ ΚΈΡΔΟΣ (G2771) выгода,
заработок (_см._ Philippians 1:21).
ΉΓΗΜΑΙ _perf. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΉΓΈΟΜΑΙ (G2233)
считать, подводить итоги,...
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DISCOURSE: 2152
THE EXCELLENCY OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST
Philippians 3:7. _What things were gain to me, those I counted loss
for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but toss for the
excell...
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THOSE I COUNTED LOSS FOR CHRIST.— That is, "I _threw them away,_ as
mariners do their goods, on which they before set a value, lest they
should endanger their lives:" in which sensethe word ζημια is
u...
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7. HOWBEIT WHAT THINGS WERE GAIN TO ME, THESE HAVE I COUNTED LOSS FOR
CHRIST.
_Translation and Paraphrase_
7. Nevertheless (in spite of all the Jewish distinctions which I can
legitimately claim), w...
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_ THE LIVING EXAMPLES_
19 The word soul has lost its significance in English, especially in
its compounds, hence we render idiomatically "good cheer," for "well
souled" and "equally sensitive" for "e...
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DANGERS AND HOPES OF THE PRESENT SITUATION
_V. Interjected Warnings (Philippians 3:1)_
§ 11. PHILIPPIANS 3:1. FINALLY (lit. 'For the rest'), MY BRETHREN,
brings the close of the letter in sight (see...
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LETTER OF JOY
Paul’s Letter to the Philippians
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 3
PAUL WARNS THEM AGAINST FALSE TEACHERS 3:1-3
V1 Finally, my friends, *rejoice in the *Lord. To write the same
things to yo...
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I COUNTED LOSS... — Not merely worthless, but worse than worthless;
because preventing the sense of spiritual need and helplessness which
should bring to Christ, and so, while “gaining all the world,”...
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[7.
Words of Warning (Philippians 3:1 to Philippians 4:3).
(1) AGAINST THE JUDAISERS.
(_a_)
_Warning against confidence_ “_in the flesh,”_ illustrated by his
own renunciation of all Jewish privileg...
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CHAPTER 10
NO CONFIDENCE IN THE FLESH.
Philippians 3:1 (R.V.)
THE third chapter contains the portion of this Epistle in which,
perhaps, one is hardest put to it to keep pace with the writer. Here
he...
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EARTHLY GAINS COUNTED LOSS THAT HE MIGHT WIN CHRIST....
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ἀλλʼ ἅτινα. Although in later Greek ὅστις had lost
almost all its peculiar force and become simply = ὅς (_e.g._,
Matthew 22:2, etc. _Cf._ Jebb in Vincent and Dickson's _Handbook_, p.
302), one feels t...
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LOSING ALL TO KNOW CHRIST
Philippians 3:1
Precept must be on precept, line on line. The false teachers who
dogged Paul's steps insisted on rigid conformity to Judaism, with its
rabbinical accretions,...
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This is the great chapter of the autobiography of Paul. First, he
emphasized the story of his past in a most remarkable way. Then
referring to these things as gains (the word in the original is
plural...
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PAUL GAVE UP ALL FOR CHRIST
Because of the above list, Paul had once counted himself a spiritual
millionaire. At the time he wrote this letter, he saw himself as
bankrupt before he found Christ (Matth...
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But what things were (d) gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
(d) Which I considered as gain....
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_If any other thinketh he may have confidence in the flesh, in being
of the Jewish race and of their religion, I more; i.e. I have greater
reasons to glory than they have, being circumcised of the sto...
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(1) В¶ Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same
things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
(2) Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the conci...
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There is no epistle in the New Testament which gives so little space
to the development of. doctrine as this to the Philippians. Need it be
said that it has not the less its own proper office on that...
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7._What things were gain to me _He says, that those things were gain
to him, for ignorance of Christ is the sole reason why we are puffed
up with a vain confidence. Hence, where we see a false estimat...
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In Chapter 3 Paul resumes his exhortation; but it was not burdensome
to him, and it was safe for them (danger being present and his tender
love watchful), to renew his warnings and instructions respec...
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BUT WHAT THINGS WERE GAIN TO ME,.... As circumcision, and the
observance of the ceremonial law, which he thought were necessary to
salvation; and his natural and lineal descent from Abraham, which he...
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But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
Ver. 7. _Loss for Christ_] Christ is to be sought and bought at any
hand, at any rate. This is to play the wise merchant, Matthew
13:...
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_But what things_ Of this nature; _were_ once reputed _gain to me_
Which I valued myself upon, and confided in for acceptance with God,
supposing them to constitute a righteousness sufficient to justi...
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WHAT THINGS WERE GAIN; those by which he once had hoped to gain
eternal life.
LOSS; he renounced all dependence on them, sensible that dependence on
them, should it continue, would cause the loss of...
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BUT WHAT THINGS WERE GAIN TO ME, THOSE I COUNTED LOSS FOR CHRIST....
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The result of Paul's conversion:...
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It is far from irksome to the apostle to turn again to speak of
"rejoicing in the Lord." Simple and elementary as is his exhortation,
he is not wearied in repeating "the same things..... For you it is...
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Learning How to Count
1 Peter 3:1-11
1. KEY WORDS
1 Finally, grievous, safe
2 Beware, evil, concision
3 Circumcision, worship, spirit
4 Flesh, trust
5 Israel, Hebrew, Pharisee
6 Zeal, persecut...
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“HOWBEIT WHAT THINGS WERE GAIN TO ME, THESE HAVE. COUNTED LOSS FOR
CHRIST”
“Howbeit what things were gain to me”: “All the things which.
once held to be gains” (TCNT). “GAIN”: “Lit., gains. The
variou...
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1-11 Sincere Christians rejoice in Christ Jesus. The prophet calls
the false prophets dumb dogs, Isaiah 56:10; to which the apostle seems
to refer. Dogs, for their malice against faithful professors...
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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...
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Tertullian Against Marcion Book V
-he now reckons to be only "loss" to himself;[922]...
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Php_3:7 But G235 things G3748 were G2258 (G5713) gain G2771 me G3427
these G5023 counted G2233 (G5766) loss G2209 for...
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‘Howbeit what things were gains to me, these have I counted loss for
Christ.'
The things that he has described were the things that he had treasured
and relied on. They had been his life. They had mea...
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A WARNING TO BEWARE OF THE JUDAISERS, WHO TAUGHT THAT SALVATION WAS
THROUGH THE WORKS OF THE LAW, IS BACKED UP FROM PAUL'S EXPERIENCE IN
WHICH HE HAD DISCOVERED THAT ALL SUCH EFFORTS WERE IN VAIN
(PHI...
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_Preparation to conclude, interrupted by a digression on false
teaching,_ 3-16.
St. Paul has now touched on all the topics on which he is about to
write to the Philippians as their special concern, an...
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Philippians 3:7. HOWBEIT WHAT THINGS WERE GAIN TO ME. In the days of
his persecuting zeal, he like the Judaizers had counted all these
distinctive marks of the pure and exclusive Jew as so many advant...
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WERE GAIN TO ME
(εν μο κερδη). "Were gains (plural, see on Philippians 1:21)
to me (ethical dative)." Paul had natural pride in his Jewish
attainments. He was the star of hope for Gamaliel and the...
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Philippians 3:7
The Apostle's Ground of Trust.
I. When such general homage is paid to earnestness as in our own time,
what wonder if some people should mistake it for religion; and if a
man should im...
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Philippians 3:7
The Christian Estimate of Gain and Loss.
The Christian man keeps an accurate account-book; he reckons up with
an intelligent and enlightened judgment his gains and his losses. And
mos...
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Philippians 3:1. _Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord._
As much as to say, «If this were the last sentence that I should
write to you, I would say, Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord.'
I...
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Philippians 3:1. _Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord._
Let this be the end of everything; before you get to the end of it,
and when you do get to the end of it, «rejoice in the Lord.» It is
in...
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The Holy Ghost incited this Epistle by the pen of his servant Paul.
May he also write it on our hearts!
Philippians 3:1. _Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord._
When you get to «finally,» when...
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CONTENTS: Christ, the object of the believer's faith, desire and
expectation.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul.
CONCLUSION: Let those reckon themselves unspeakable losers, who by
adhering t...
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Philippians 3:2. _Beware of dogs,_ judaizing teachers and false
apostles, which bite and devour the flock; dogs which bark in
ignorance against the person of Christ, and the gospel of God our
Saviour....
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BUT ALL THOSE THINGS. "I could be very proud of my ancestors and my
Jewish background. But now they are just things to be thrown away,
because they have no value in Christ!" _Johnson_ says: "Instead o...
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_Though I might also have confidence in the flesh--Observe _
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I._
Paul’s advantages--Superior to those which men generally put
confidence in--respecting his birth and religious training, his rigid...
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_What things were gain to me those I counted loss for Christ _
THE CHRISTIAN’S ACCOUNTS
The Christian keeps an accurate account book.
He reckons up with an enlightened judgment his gains and losses...
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_Finally, my brethren _
PRIDELESS PRIDE
1_._
What were the things not irksome and safe?
(1) Counsels in some lost Epistles.
(2) Messages delivered by word of mouth through his delegates.
(3) Ear...
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PHILIPPIANS—NOTE ON PHILIPPIANS 3:7 GAIN... LOSS. What formerly went
into Paul’s _gain_ column—his power, position, and
performance—now goes into the _loss_ column. Compare...
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PHILIPPIANS—NOTE ON PHILIPPIANS 3:1 Opponents of the Gospel: Where
Does Righteousness Come From? Paul calls on the Philippians to
rejoice in the Lord (v. Philippi
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_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_
Philippians 3:4. THOUGH I MIGHT ALSO HAVE CONFIDENCE IN THE
FLESH.—They will never be able to say he “speaks evil of that
which he knows not.” “If there is any profit...
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EXPOSITION
PHILIPPIANS 3:1
FINALLY, MY BRETHREN, REJOICE IN THE LORD. This word "finally"
(τὸ λοιπόν is frequently used by St. Paul to introduce a
practical conclusion after the doctrinal portion...
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Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Philippians 3.
Again, remember that the background of this epistle, Paul is chained
to a Roman soldier in Rome, in prison, writing to the Philippians. The
keynote of...
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Acts 27:18; Acts 27:19; Acts 27:38; Galatians 2:15; Galatians 2:16;...
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What things [α τ ι ν α]. The double relative classifies; things
which came under the category of gain. Compare Galatians 4:24;
Colossians 2:23. Gain [κ ε ρ δ η]. Lit., gains. So Rev., in
margin, and b...
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SEVEN PAIRS OF THINGS
A Message of Contrasts
Philippians 3:4
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
There is much said in the Bible by way of contrast. Heaven is
contrasted with hell; life is contrasted with death; r...
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But all these things, which I then accounted gain, which were once my
confidence, my glory, and joy, those, ever since I have believed, I
have accounted loss, nothing worth in comparison of Christ....
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That is, the fore-mentioned privileges, which heretofore he accounted
gain, and thought to gain justification and salvation by, now, since
his illumination, he counted them all LOSS; he saw he had los...