ACC ~ Philippians 3 v6a

THE IMPLICATION OF HIS FORMER ZEAL. CHRYSOSTOM: “If then it was because of my good breeding and my zeal and my way of life, and I had all the things that belong to life, why,” he says, “did I let go those lofty things, unless I found that those of Christ were greater, and greater by far?” OMILY ON PHILIPPIANS 11.3.6.

BURNING WITH ZEAL FOR THE LAW. THEODORET: “When I was harrying the church,” he says, “I was not driven by love of honor or vainglory or jealousy, like the rulers of the Jews. I was burning with zeal for the law.” PISTLE TO THE PHILIPPIANS 3.6.

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