Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
As many as be perfect (osoi teleioi). Here the term teleioi means relative perfection, not the absolute perfection so pointedly denied in verse Philippians 3:12. Paul here includes himself in the group of spiritual adults (see Hebrews 5:13).
Let us be thus minded (touto fronwmen). Present active volitive subjunctive of fronew. "Let us keep on thinking this," viz. that we have not yet attained absolute perfection.
If ye are otherwise minded (ei ti eterwv froneite). Condition of first class, assumed as true. That is, if ye think that ye are absolutely perfect.
Shall God reveal unto you (o qeov umin apokaluyei). He turns such cases over to God. What else can he do with them?
Whereunto we have already come (eiv o efqasamen). First aorist active indicative of fqanw, originally to come before as in I Thessalonians 4:15, but usually in the Koin‚ simply to arrive, attain to, as here.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Philippians 3:15:
1 Corinthians 2:6
Galatians 4:1
Colossians 1:28
Hebrews 5:14
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