Toward the goal (κατα σκοπον). "Down upon the goal," who is Jesus himself to whom we must continually look as we run ([Reference H…

I press toward the mark. This is as one who was running a race did. The "mark" properly means the object set up at a distance at which one…

The high calling of God.—Properly, the calling which is above—that is (much as in Colossians 3:12), “the heavenl…

But this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the ma…

Continuing the metaphor, Paul likens his Christian life to pressing onward to the goal so as to win the prize. In applying the figure, the goal and…

I press toward the mark
The allusion is to the white line, or mark, which the runners in the Olympic games made up t…

This simple dependence and earnestness of soul were not mentioned as if the apostle had gained the prize, or were already made perfect in the Savio…

Above, he showed that he scorned past gains for the sake of Christ, that is, in order to know and win Christ. Here he intends to explain these thin…