...joy. But, no— It is a crown of glory that fadeth not away. It is everlasting life ! APRIL 8. — " If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead." Phil. iii. 11. HERE the subject of consideration is, the resurrection of the dead! But it is obvious...

...obtaining an interest in Jesus Christ, and eternal salvation ? Thus the apostle, Philip. iii. 11. " If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead." He tells us there in the context what difficulties he broke through, that he suffered the loss of all...

...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,...

...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....

...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,...

...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...

...dead," means the resurrection generally ; and yet St. Paul uses it for the resurrection of the just: " If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead *." And so life everlasting, though used frequently for a reward to the just, may and does here mean,...

...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,...

...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...