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that is, after confirming and strengthening them to endure the great persecution of their pursuers, he turns to exhorting them so that they should also beware of the bad teachings of the Jews. “I don’t hesitate,” he says, “to write tell you about what you should beware of and protect you from those who appear daily to confuse you. Phil.3:2. Beware of the dogs These are deceitful leaders who preach circumcision to you. Phil.3:3. We are the circumcision, of whom the Spirit and God have been appointed ministers, obviously, through spiritual living, - and... we boast in Christ, Who had mercy on us, and not by our works, which could justify us We boast in ours as they do, that is, we do not boast in the works of the law or in circumcision like them. If one could hope for this, I mean circumcision and descent, then I could boast of this with much greater boldness than they (Phil. 3:4). Phil.3:5. I was circumcised on the eighth day, - from the family of Israel, from the tribe of Benjamin, - I’m not a stranger or an alien, but A Jew is from the Jews, but according to the law he is a Pharisee. I was the evangelist of the new law, in the law (of Moses) contained, I was Phil.3:7. But what was my advantage there, I considered it... I... for Christ's sake, revealed to me on the way (to Damascus), this is for harm and disadvantage, for the benefit of knowing Jesus... Christ... our Lord: for His sake I deprived myself of everything that I had acquired in the law, and, as it were, and I considered it garbage, so that only one Christ... to gain and be found in Him to have not my righteousness, which is from the law, in which those who teach you to be circumcised boast, the truth of the faith of Christ, which... is from God. For by this true sign I knew Jesus and the great Phil.3:10. the power of His resurrection who are waiting for me everywhere, reach before the resurrection, which is from the dead. Phil.3:12. Not because [I say this] so that... I have already received what is promised in the distant future, has already received what is impossible for a person to receive, and not because through persecution and other suffering continually expecting to reach the promised new world, because as if Jesus Christ had reached me. Phil.3:13. I do not consider myself to have achieved that is, so that the labors of my life are sufficient, then I hold it reliably and firmly in my soul, that the rear is leaving and forgetting, that is, the works of the flesh which were in the law, consigning to oblivion, - and to the fact that forward and, guided day by day through spiritual achievement, Phil.3:14. I strive for the designated goal, that is, to what was promised, in order to receive a reward of undoubted victory, thanks to who was with me on the way to Damascus. Phil.3:15. So, those who considered themselves perfect, although it would not be appropriate for them to think about themselves this way, let them think the way I think. besides what I found very useful for you, then and this... to you... God... will reveal. Phil.3:16. However, what have we achieved? the deeds are obviously of the spirit, which we began (to do) in them and let us not turn ourselves to the works of the law. Phil.3:17. Be my imitators, for I left them (the works of the law) and did not return again to them. And imitate not only me, but everyone, that is, according to the model of our example, which you have had until now. There are some Jews who I often told you, and now even while crying I say that And they, thanks to this enmity, found a disastrous end for themselves, whose “god” is worshiped by their “womb”, since they honor God for the sake of earthly promises Phil.3:19. - and glory to you that is, they boast of the fact that they were brought (to fulfill the law) as hirelings of their belly, - who send only earthly things in oneself and about the earthly promises of the law. Phil.3:20. Ours and the same affairs, in heaven is the essence, from where... we expect to see not the one who made us possessors of the land of the Canaanites, but on the day of our resurrection will transform... the body... of our humiliation, which inside in the underworld (in the grave) becomes insignificant dust - and He will make him conform to the body of His glory, that is, the immortal life with which He clothed according to the strength of His might, so that He could subjugate everything to Himself, that is: according to the might of His power, which He demonstrated in His own body. For just as His body is renewed, so the renewed bodies of all people will be subject to Him. You might be interested in: