Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Philippians 3:9-11
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTESPhilippians 3:9. Through the faith of Christ.—Better without the article as R.V. Faith is the medium by which righteousness comes. The righteousness which is of God.—Which originates from God as the fount of all righteousness. By faith.—R.V. margin, “upon”; that is, resting upon faith as its condition; above it was the medium.Philippians 3:10. The power of His resurrection.—The wide-reaching and conquering force and efficacy which render death inert (2 Timothy... read more
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Philippians 3:11
Being found in whom, after justification and sanctification, he doubts not to be glorified, (by a figure of a part, resurrection of the body, for the whole), though he expresseth himself as one that must pass through difficulties ere he attain not only to a spiritual resurrection from sin, but a glorious one of the body from the grave, even such a one as will be an elevation or ascension of the body united to the soul, not only exempted from the grave, but exalted into the air, to be for ever... read more