Zornii, T. ii. Opusc. sacr. p. 514. Gataker says : " f marks out any worthless thing, that is to be cast away, such as the excrements of animals, the dregs and grounds of liquors, the dross of metals, what falls from plants, the refuse of the crops, the bran of meal, the crumbs of the table, the wipings of the hands, which are destined for the dogs.1 See this very fully in Adversar. misc. posth. cap. 43." — 'Iva, that) The two things are incompatible, both to retain other things and to win (obtain) Christ. — xep8Jiffu xai supedu, that 1 may win and be found) Each of the two is antithetical to ^/av, loss. Pie who loses all things, not even excepting himself, wins Christ, and is wTon in Christ. Christ is his, and he is Christ's. More still, Paul speaks as if he had not yet won.
9. EvpsQoj sv avrti) viz. OIP. — ^ s%wv, not having) The words, to suffer loss, to win, to be found, to have, are figurative. The immediate consequence of being, and being found, in Christ, is to have righteousness by faith in Christ. The book "Wno, the col lection of prayers for the Jews, has WIVI Dnjtt &!B> D^yDD "3K TID3 NTI PHI?, i.e. In regard to works I am quite empty and bare, and Thy righteousness alone is my clothing. — ?/^r,v, my oivn) The antithesis is, that (the righteousness) which is of (from) God; but e/uviv without the article serves to indicate oblivion of the past.2 — rriv ex VO/AOU, that which is of the law) ver. 6 ; comp. of, Rom. iv. 14. The antithesis is, that which is by faith. — <5/r/
Xpiffrou) by the faith of Christ, viz. in Christ. — svri ry [which rests] upon faith.
10. Tot yvuvai, that I may know) The genitive, rov, is con nected with nfffrei, faith ; and resumes the mention of rJj? yvojffsug, knowledge, made at ver. 8, and now to be more fully explained. — avrov) Him. — d-jva>jnv, the power) Rom. i. 4. — rfc avaffTuffsuz auToD) It is consonant to the order of the discourse that the verbal noun avaffraas should be taken, not for the re surrection from the dead, which is expressed in ver. 11 with a
sense separate: and yet one who counted all else but Christ '&*%, in the sense dung. — ED.
1 According to the derivation assigned to c-xy/SatAoi/, tig KVVCX-S /S^AAg/v, as a>copoe.>ct^M^ from dg x,6pa,xa.g, — ED.
2 i.e. A wish to forget his former kind of righteousness, as if not his at all.— ED.