ACC ~ Philippians 3 v13b

WHAT IS PERFECT TODAY MAY BE FALSE TOMORROW. JEROME: Put the past out of mind. Set your mind to the future. What he has reckoned perfect today he ascertains to have been false tomorrow as he reaches for ever better and higher goals. By this gradual advance, never being static but always in progress, he is able to teach us that what we supposed in our human way to be perfect still remains in some ways imperfect. The only perfection is the true righteousness of God. DIALOGUE AGAINST THE PELAGIANS 1.15.

FORGETTING WHAT LIES BEHIND. THEODORET: Some think that “paying no heed to the things behind” refers to life under the law. I think he says this of his labors as a preacher. For his custom was to be cursory and to mingle doctrinal statement with exhortation. What he says then is “I pay no heed to my previous labors, but I strive enthusiastically to press on to those ahead.” PISTLE TO THE PHILIPPIANS 3.13-14.

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