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PHILIPPIANS 3:15 fronw/men {A}
In place of the hortatory subjunctive, which is appropriate in the
context, the indicative is read by a L and a few other witnesses,
probably through scribal inadverte...
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Verse 15. _AS MANY AS BE PERFECT_] As many as are _thoroughly_
_instructed_ in Divine things, who have cast off all dependence on the
law and on every other system for salvation, and who discern God
c...
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LET US THEREFORE, AS MANY AS BE PERFECT - see the notes at Philippians
3:12. Or, rather, those who would be perfect; or who are aiming at
perfection. It can hardly be supposed that the apostle would a...
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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_3:10-16. AIM AND ASPIRATION. In exchange for the proud Jewish
privileges that he has renounced, Paul has a new pursuit. His aim is
to know Christ and the power that comes from His resurrection, th...
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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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Not that I have already obtained this, or that I am already all
complete but I press on to try to grasp that for which I have been
grasped by Jesus Christ. Brothers, I do not count myself to have
obta...
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PERFECT. App-126.
BE THUS MINDED. have this in mind. Greek. _phroneo,_ as in verses: Php
16:19.
BE... MINDED. Same word.
OTHERWISE. Greek. _heteros_. Only used thus here. Compare App-124.
REVEAL....
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_perfect_ An adjective, not a perfect participle, as was the kindred
word (" _perfected_") in Philippians 3:12. Is there a contradiction
between this place and that? On the surface, but not really. Th...
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ΤΈΛΕΙΟΙ. Here is an apparent discrepancy with his rejection of
the thought of his being “perfected,” just above. But he seems to
be taking up here, with a sort of loving irony, a word used by those
wh...
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HIS SPIRITUAL CONDITION IS ONE OF PROGRESS, NOT PERFECTION...
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ΌΣΟΣ (G3745) каждый, те, кто.
ΤΈΛΕΊΟΣ (G5046) совершенный, зрелый.
Имеется в виду взрослый человек в
отличие от ребенка (Lightfoot).
ΦΡΟΝΏΜΕΝ _praes. conj. act. от_ ΦΡΟΝΈΩ (G5426)
думать, относиться...
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DISCOURSE: 2155
HOLY AMBITION ENCOURAGED
Philippians 3:13. _Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended:
but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and
reaching forth unt...
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LET US THEREFORE, AS MANY AS BE PERFECT, &C.— "Such is the situation
of my own mind, and the ardour of desire with which I am pressing
after farther attainments in the Divine life. _Let as many of us...
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15. LET US THEREFORE, AS MANY AS ARE PERFECT, BE THUS MINDED: AND IF
IN ANYTHING YE ARE OTHERWISE MINDED, THIS ALSO SHALL GOD REVEAL UNTO
YOU: 16. ONLY WHEREUNTO WE HAVE ATTAINED, BY THAT SAME _RULE_...
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Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in
any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
THEREFORE - resuming . PERFECT - full-grown (no longer 'bab...
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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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3:15 perfect, (g-6) Or 'full-grown,' as 1 Corinthians 14:20 ....
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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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LET US, SO MANY AS BE PERFECT (the true 'initiates,' in contrast with
those alluded to in Philippians 3:12), BE THUS MINDED—as much as to
say, 'Those really deep in Christian knowledge will think in t...
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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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PERFECT. — The word is apparently used with a touch of irony (as
perhaps the word “spiritual” in Galatians 6:1), in reference to
those who hold themselves “to have already attained, to be already
perf...
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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 11
THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST.
Philippians 3:8 (R.V.)
MR. ALEXANDER KNOX, in a letter to a friend, makes the following
remark: "Religion contains two sets of truths, which I may venture to
deno...
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CHAPTER 14
CHRISTIAN LIFE A RACE.
Philippians 3:12 (R.V.)
VARIOUS passages in this Epistle suggest that the Apostle's Philippian
friends or some of them were relaxing in diligence; they were failing...
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THE MARK OF THE MATURE CHRISTIAN, TO PRESS FORWARD....
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τέλειοι. What Paul understands by τέλ. we can easily
discover from Ephesians 4:13-14; Colossians 1:28; Colossians 4:12, 1
Corin
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PRESSING ON “UNTO THE PRIZE”
Philippians 3:13
The nearer the saint comes to the perfect life, the farther he feels
from it. It is only when we have climbed the foothills that we realize
how lofty the...
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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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PRESSING ON TO THE PRIZE
Having forgotten all that was in the past, the apostle pressed, or
stretched forward like a runner trying to break the tape, toward the
prize of salvation in Christ (1 Peter 3...
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(7) Let us therefore, as many as be (m) perfect, be thus minded: and
if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this
unto you.
(7) The conclusion of this exhortation standing upon t...
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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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15_As many as are perfect _Lest any one should understand this as
spoken of the generality of mankind, as though he were explaining the
simple elements to those that are mere children in Christ, he de...
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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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LET US THEREFORE, AS MANY AS BE PERFECT,.... Not absolutely, but
comparatively, with respect to other believers, in a lower class of
knowledge and experience; and not with respect to degrees, but part...
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Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any
thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
Ver. 15. _As many as be perfect_] Comparatively, or conceited...
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_Let us, as many as are perfect_ As many as are genuine believers in
Christ, thorough Christians, justified and regenerated, new creatures
in Christ, and so fit for the Christian race of duty and suff...
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BE PERFECT; have attained to mature Christian knowledge.
BE THUS MINDED; have my mind as just described.
BE OTHERWISE MINDED; if any had not attained to so much light as to
their duty, let them impro...
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LET US, THEREFORE, AS MANY AS BE PERFECT, BE THUS MINDED; AND IF IN
ANYTHING YE BE OTHERWISE MINDED, GOD SHALL REVEAL EVEN THIS UNTO YOU....
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SANCTIFICATION FOLLOWING JUSTIFICATION, AND THE CONSUMMATION OF THE
CHRISTIAN HOPE.
The Christian's eagerness in sanctification:...
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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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Let's Win the Race!
1 Peter 3:12-16
1. KEY WORDS
12 Attained, perfect, apprehend
13 Count, forgetting, reaching, before
14 Press, mark, prize, calling
15 Perfect, minded, reveal
16 Walk, rule,...
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1 Peter 3:15 “Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus
minded: and if in anything ye are otherwise minded, this also shall
God reveal unto you”
“Let us therefore”: THIS LEVEL OF SPIRITUALITY...
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12-21 This simple dependence and earnestness of soul, were not
mentioned as if the apostle had gained the prize, or were already made
perfect in the Saviour's likeness. He forgot the things which wer...
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A learned man reads it from the Greek to this purpose: As many
therefore as are perfect, let us think this; and if ye think any thing
otherwise, even this also God will, or may, reveal to you, (beside...
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Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I
And yet he reckons himself perfect, because he has been emancipated
from his former life, and strives after the better life, not as
perfect in knowledge, b...
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Php_3:15 Therefore G3767 let G5426 as G3745 mature G5046 have G5426
this G5124 mind G5426 (G5725) and G2532 anything G1536 thin
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HIS KNOWING OF CHRIST INVOLVES PARTICIPATION WITH HIM IN THE POWER OF
HIS RESURRECTION, AND EQUAL PARTICIPATION WITH HIM IN HIS SUFFERINGS,
BY HIMSELF RECOGNISING THAT HE HAS DIED WITH CHRIST. AND HIS...
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‘Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded, and if in
anything you are otherwise minded, this also will God reveal to you,'
In Philippians 3:12 Paul declared that he was not already ‘pe...
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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 3:15. LET US THEREFORE, AS MANY AS BE PERFECT. The apostle
uses the word ‘perfect,' as our Lord in the Sermon on the Mount:
‘Be ye perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfec...
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AS MANY AS BE PERFECT
(οσο τελειο). Here the term τελειο means relative
perfection, not the absolute perfection so pointedly denied in verse
Philippians 3:12. Paul here includes himself in the grou...
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PERFECT
(_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 5:48). _...
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Philippians 3:15
Toleration.
I. In proportion as we really love the Lord Jesus Christ, we shall
love those who love Him, be it in never so clumsy or mistaken a
fashion, and love those too whom He lov...
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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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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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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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WHO ARE SPIRITUALLY MATURE. This is a play on words: he is not
_perfect,_ he is _mature._ Those who are _mature_ should have this
attitude: forget the past; run straight toward the goal. IF, HOWEVER....
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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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PHILIPPIANS—NOTE ON PHILIPPIANS 3:15 MATURE is the same adjective
translated “perfect” in v. Philippians 3:12. Paul is essentially
saying, “If you are really
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_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_
Philippians 3:12. NOT AS THOUGH I HAD ALREADY ATTAINED.—The word for
“attained” may possibly refer to the turning-point in St. Paul’s
history, and so the phrase would...
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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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1 Corinthians 14:20; 1 Corinthians 2:6; 1 John 2:5; 2 Timothy 3:17;...
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Let us, as many as are perfect — Fit for the race, strong in faith;
so it means here. Be thus minded — Apply wholly to this one thing.
And if in anything ye — Who are not perfect, who are weak in fait...
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Are Christians perfect, or still on the way?
PROBLEM: In this verse, Paul calls on those who “are perfect”
(KJV) to act as he did, but only three verses earlier he claimed that
he was not “already pe...
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LET AS MANY AS BE PERFECT, that is, grown Christians, instructed
thoroughly in their Christian duty, who, compared with others, may be
called PERFECT, BE THUS MINDED, as. am, namely, to believe the
ci...