Philippians 3:1

CHAPTER III.

The apostle exhorts the Philippians to rejoice in the Lord, 1.

And to beware of false teachers, 2.

Shows that Christians are the true circumcision, who worship

God in the Spirit, 3.

And that himself had more reason to trust in the flesh than any

of the Jews, 4-6.

But that he counted all things loss for Christ, 7-11.

He longs after a conformity to Christ in his death, and presses

onward to the attainment of his high calling, 12-14.

Exhorts them to be like-minded, 15-17.

Warns them against certain persons who were enemies to the cross

of Christ, 18, 19.

Shows the nature of their heavenly privileges, and the

resurrection and glorification of the human body, 20, 21.

NOTES ON CHAP. III.

Verse Philippians 3:1. Rejoice in the Lord.] Be always happy; but let that happiness be such as you derive from the Lord.

To write the same things] He means those which he had formerly preached to them or to other Churches, for he had but one Gospel; and we may rest assured that the doctrine of this epistle was the same with his preaching.

For you it is safe.] It is much better to have these Divine things committed to writing than confided to memory. By the latter they may be either lost or corrupted, by the former they will be preserved.