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Finally, hear Paul as he speaks boldly, and mark how clearly he discovers these: "Beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.[40]

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And although it is written that the dogs should remain without, and the apostle has taught that these same dogs must be shunned, as we read, for he says, "Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers,"[1]

We are the circumcision[98]

of God introducing the spiritual circumcision.[20]

But "those things which he had once accounted gain," and which he enumerates in the preceding verse-"trust in the flesh," the sign of "circumcision," his origin as "an Hebrew of the Hebrews," his descent from "the tribe of Benjamin," his dignity in the honours of the Pharisee[921]

Then he told me frankly both his name and his family. "Trypho," says he, "I am called; and I am a Hebrew of the circumcision,[4]

For the occasion, indeed, of claiming Divine grace even for the Gentiles derived a pre-eminent fitness from this fact, that the man who set up to vindicate CoWs Law as his own was of the Gentiles, and not a Jew "of the stock of the Israelites."[2]

11. And I shall no longer be called a ravening wolf[8]

-he now reckons to be only "loss" to himself;[922]

that I "may win Christ."[35]

(in other words, ) it was not the God of the Jews, but their stupid obduracy, which he repudiates. These are also the things "which he counts but dung for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ"[923]

, for the purpose of "winning the Lord; "[137]

by the believer."[13]

may receive, when freed from a tutor and stewards and guardians, the patrimony corresponding to the very costly pearl, and to that which is perfect, which on its coming does away with that which is in part, when one is able to receive "the excellency of the knowledge of Christ,"[42]

Christ, "the righteousness which is of God."[924]

not workmen who imitate the children of light, while they are not light but darkness-"men whose end is destruction; "[136]

For He is my hope; He is my boast; He is my never-failing riches, on whose account I bear about with me these bonds from Syria to Rome, these spiritual jewels, in which may I be perfected through your prayers, and become a partaker of the sufferings of Christ, and have fellowship with Him in His death, His resurrection from the dead, and His everlasting life.[86]

For it renders us like to Christ, if we experience "the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings."[68]

and this, "Being made conformable to His death,"[177]

If, therefore, in the present time, fleshly hearts are made partakers of the Spirit, what is there astonishing if, in the resurrection, they receive that life which is granted by the Spirit? Of which resurrection the apostle speaks in the Epistle to the Philippians: "Having been made conformable to His death, if by any means I might attain to the resurrection which is from the dead."[109]

It is in expectation of this for himself that the apostle writes to the Philippians: "If by any means," says he, "I might attain to the resurrection of the dead. Not as though I had already attained, or were already perfect."[156]

for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee." Now these promises, it is evident to every one, will be fulfilled after the resurrection.[82]

Then they who shall be alive in their bodies shall not die, but during those thousand years shall produce an infinite multitude, and their offspring shall be holy, and beloved by God; but they who shall be raised from the dead shall preside over the living as judges.[145]

Sharbil said: Thou hast well done in treating me thus: because I have heard that one of the teachers of the Church hath said,[47]

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; but when that which is perfect has come, the things which are in part shall be done away."[109]

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forth to those that are before, I press toward the mark, for the prize of the high calling in Christ Jesus."[106]

If these things may happen to those women also who, having attained the faith while in (the state of) Gentile matrimony, continue in that state, still they are excused, as having been "apprehended by God"[47]

But if we listen to the apostle, forgetting what is behind, let us both strain after what is before,[29]

according to Jeremiah; and "forgetful of former things, we are reaching forward,"[53]

in other words, when one reaches forth unto those things which are before, he will forget those which are behind.[581]

I address you; and as you press "in your course to the prize of your calling in Christ,"[4]

of thy "calling on high"[44]

And yet he reckons himself perfect, because he has been emancipated from his former life, and strives after the better life, not as perfect in knowledge, but as aspiring after perfection. Wherefore also he adds, "As many of us as are perfect, are thus minded,"[107]

And not merely in regard to a judicial sentence, but in regard to every decision in matters we are called on to consider, the apostle also says, "If of anything you are ignorant, God shall reveal it unto you; "[16]

"And if," says (the apostle), "there are matters which ye are ignorant about, the Lord will reveal to you."[81]

For, by progressing in virtue, and attaining to better things, "reaching forth to those things which are before,"[37]

And because already His second coming draws near to us, His benign and liberal condescension is more and more illuminating our hearts with the light of truth.[46]

"that ye all speak the same thing, being of one mind, thinking the same thing, and walking by the same rule of faith,"[4]

And they have always agreed with each other, and been at peace among themselves,[19]

on which our life both sprang up again, and the victory over death was obtained in Christ, whom the children of perdition, the enemies of the Saviour, deny, "whose god is their belly, who mind earthly things,"[61]

For if they had been branches of the Father, they would not have been "enemies of the cross of Christ,"[86]

Beware, therefore, of those that hasten to work mischief, those "enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose glory is in their shame."[26]

Such are the men who believe in their belly, "whose God is their belly, whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things." To them the apostle predicted no good when he said, "whose end is destruction."[54]

which makes the slaves of the belly[171]

Deservedly, therefore, while they do not cover their head, in order that they may be solicited for the sake of glory, they are forced to cover their bellies by the ruin resulting from infirmity. For it is emulation, not religion, which impels them. Sometimes it is that god- their belly[50]

Not one of such women knows how to speak of the good of single-husbandhood; for their "god," as the apostle says, "is their belly; "[96]

For our conversation is in heaven, whence also we expect the Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall transform the body of our humiliation conformed to the body of His glory."[444]

And again, in the same epistle, he also warns us not to mind earthly things, and tells us that we ought to have our conversation in heaven; from which also we look for the Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ.[399]

And do not suppose that Paul said that he was truly God; for just as the belly, though it is not the god of those who prize pleasure too highly, being lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, is said by Paul to be their god,[123]

They pass their days on earth, but they are citizens of heaven.[22]

He says to me, "You know that you who are the servants of God dwell in a strange land; for your city is far away from this one.[2]

"For the world is crucified to me, and I to the world," the [apostle] says; "and now I live, though in the flesh, as having my conversation in heaven."[16]

But as for you, you are a foreigner in this world, a citizen of Jerusalem, the city above. Our citizenship, the apostle says, is in heaven.[54]

, or citizenship, is in heaven,[357]

of any other than Him to whom the law belonged. "Our conversation," says he, "is in heaven."[925]

from whence also we look for our Saviour Jesus Christ, who shall change our body of humiliation, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body"[335]

his other daughter also, who passed her life[6]

and, "Our citizenship is in heaven."[81]

we say it as Peter, not by flesh and blood revealing it unto us, but by the light from the Father in heaven shining in our heart, we too become as Peter, being pronounced blessed as he was, because that the grounds on which he was pronounced blessed apply also to us, by reason of the fact that flesh and blood have not revealed to us with regard to Jesus that He is Christ, the Son of the living God, but the Father in heaven, from the very heavens, that our citizenship may be in heaven,[66]

If, again, Christ in His advent from heaven "shall change the body of our humiliation, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body,"[928]

It was as full of this splendid example that Paul said: "Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body."[429]

also, "Who will change the body of our humiliation."[126]

All that deformity, detestable and foul to Gentiles, with what splendour shall it be recompensed! This temporal and brief suffering, how shall it be exchanged for the re ward of a bright and eternal honour, when, according to the word of the blessed apostle, "the Lord shall change the body of our humiliation, that it may be fashioned like to the body of His brightness!"[6]

into the likeness of Christ, and to arrive more quickly to the dignity of heavenly glory, since Paul the apostle announces and says, "For our conversation is in heaven, from whence also we look for the Lord Jesus Christ; who shall change the body of our humiliation, and conform it to the body of His glory? "[44]

The transformation, he says, is the restoration into an impassible and glorious state. For now the body is a body of desire and of humiliation,[110]

since He formerly became conformed to "the body of our humiliation,"[190]

with "the body of humiliation," and do all things that they may become worthy to be found in the mystery of the resurrection, when God shall fashion anew the body of humiliation not of all, but of those who have been truly made disciples to Christ, so that it may be conformed to the body of the glory of Christ.[140]