later day; +Hebrew+ offspring +of Hebrew ancestors+,[9] child of a home
in which, immemorially, the old manners and the old speech were
cherished; _in respect of the law,[10] a Pharisee_--the votary of
religious precision, elaborate devotion, exclusive privilege, and
energetic prose-

Ver. 6, lytism; +in respect of zeal+, intense and perfectly sincere,
+persecuting the Church; in respect of the righteousness which+ resides
+in the Law+, as its terms are understood by the Pharisee, +found+
(_genomenos_) +blameless+.[11] Such was my position. I possessed an
ideal pedigree; full sacramental position from the first; domestic
traditions pure and strict; an absolute personal devotion to the cause
of my creed; the most rigorous observance of its rules; the most
energetic

Ver. 7. efforts to maintain and extend its power. +But the kind of
things which+ (_hatina_) +I felt+ (_moi en_) so many _gains,[12] these
things I have come to consider_ (_hegemai_, perfect), +because of our+
(_ton_) +Christ+ (discovered at last in His glory, as the slain and
risen Jesus), just one +loss+, one +deprivation+; not merely a
worthless thing, but a ruinous one; a robbery of the true Blessing

Ver. 8. from my soul. +Aye more, I actually+ (_kai_) now +consider
all things+, from all points of view, all possessions, all ambitions,
+to be+ similarly +loss+, deprivation, +because of the surpassingness
of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord+, because of the immeasurable
betterness of a spirit-sight of what HE is, in Himself, and as my own;
+because of whom+--on account of what He now was to me--+I suffered
deprivation+ (_exemiothen_) +of my all+ (_ta panta_), in the crisis of
my change; +and I consider it+ only +refuse+,[13] rubbish, that +I may
gain+[14] (in a blessed exchange of profit against loss, the loss of
what I thought my "gains") +Christ+, nothing less than HIM, my
boundless Wealth (_ploutos_

Ver. 9. _anexichniaston_, Eph. iii. 8), +and be found+, at any and
every "time of finding" (Ps. xxxii. 7, Heb.) by the Holy One, +in Him+,
one with Him, in His precious merits and in His risen life, but now
especially in His merits; +not having a righteousness of my own, that
derived from the Law+, a title to acceptance drawn from my own supposed
perfect correspondence to the Law, +but that which+ comes +through
faith in[15] Christ+, through reliance wholly reposed in Him, +the
righteousness which is derived+ not from the Law but +from God+