{"id":1187,"date":"2011-02-25T05:00:37","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2023-01-20T20:45:17","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T02:45:17","slug":"philippians-34-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=1187","title":{"rendered":"Philippians 3:4-6"},"content":{"rendered":"

4 Though I also might have confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he may have confidence in the flesh, I more so: <\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee; <\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

6 concerning zeal, persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, blameless. <\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

Paul demonstrates that, according to the law, he has more to boast about than even the Judaizers.<\/h3>\n

stock of Israel (v.5) \u2014 descended from Jacob (Israel) \u2014 of original stock, not proselytes<\/h3>\n

tribe of Benjamin (v.5) \u2014 not one of the 10 tribes which had fallen away<\/h3>\n

Hebrew of the Hebrews (v.5) \u2014 no Gentile blood \u2014 possessing\u00a0 superior language and manners \u2014 not a Hellenistic Jew<\/h3>\n

touching the law, a Pharisee (v.5) \u2014 devoted, separated to the Law of Moses \u2014 one of the conservative leaders, practicing extreme nationalism and exclusivism \u2014 taught by Gamaliel (Acts 22:3<\/span><\/a>)<\/h3>\n

zeal (v.6) = ardor<\/h3>\n

persecuting the church (v.6) \u2014 Paul uses irony to condemn himself<\/h3>\n

church (v.6) \u2014 the local Jerusalem kingdom church \u2014 always a local term, distinct from the Body of Christ<\/h3>\n

righteousness which is in the law (v.6) \u2014 obedience to the requirements of the law, including the sacrifices which atoned for his sins<\/h3>\n

blameless (v.6) \u2014 should be “becoming blameless”<\/h3>\n

The Judaizers had confidence in the flesh. That is, they trusted in human attainments, in the works of man. Theirs was not a supernatural system in which salvation was a work of God for man, but a natural system in which salvation was a work of man for God. They did not believe in a supernatural Judaism in which God had given salvation to the offerer of the symbolic sacrifice by virtue of the merits of the coming true sacrifice for sin, the Lord Jesus. Over against this dependence of the Judaizers upon human attainment and merit, Paul sets his own human attainments and merits, saying that he had more to boast of then they, and yet he had discarded all these and any dependence upon them in order that he might appropriate the salvation which is in Christ Jesus. Thus Paul uses himself as an example to warn the Philippians against the seductive snares of the Judaizers. \u2014 Wuest, pages 88-89.<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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