...he has not done so, but is pressing toward the mark, having previously stated, in the llth verse, " if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead." It must consequently be concluded St. Paul was himself doing those things which he knew were right,...

...came to Jesus. And Jesus an- 51 swered and said unto him, What wilt thou that I should do unto thee ? The blind man said unto him, Lord, that I might receive my sight. And 52 Jesus said unto him, Go thy way ; thy faith hath made thee whole. And immediately he received...

...they have not preserved the distinction which we are contending for. We allude to Phil. iii. 11 : " If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead." ET It ought to have been rendered " FROM the dead." The original is tic rriv itavaaraaiv TUV vtKpwv....

...pen of the historian. " Jesus answering said unto him, what wilt thou, that I should do unto thee ?" The blind man said unto him : " Lord, that I might receive my sight." It ought to be, " that I may receive my sight," / will being understood ; thus, " I will, that I may...

...mind, than the apostle checks it, and turns from it -to an anxious view of his own deficiencies. ' If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.' These are the words of an anxious man. ' Not,' then he proceeds, ' not as though I had already attained,...

...raise us up also by Jesus, and shall present us with you. And in the same manner to the Philippians : If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. And in his second Epistle to Timothy, he intimates, that his own death was certain, and even approaching...

...earnestly within ourselves, waiting for]the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body." Philip. Hi. 11. "If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead." " Women received their dead raised to life again : and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance,...

...power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death: If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect; hut I follow after, if -that I may...

...the following: " And Jesus answered and said unto him, What wilt thou that I should do unto thee ? The blind man said unto him, Lord, that I might receive my sight." At the meeting held for transacting the business of the Society, at the close of the morning service,...

...of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death ; if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead." The resurrection of the dead, then, considered as obtained by the mediation of Christ, is the resurrection...