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I press on toward the goal to the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
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An Active, Forward Race
Commentators unanimously highlight Paul's use of a race metaphor. The Christian life isn't passive; it requires active, forward-leaning effort. Like a runner straining for the finish line, believers are to "press on," constantly striving for progress and not settling for past achievements. As Charles Spurgeon vividly describes, it's like a runner trying to send their heart ahead of their body.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
Toward the goal (κατα σκοπον). "Down upon the goal," who is Jesus himself to whom we must continually look as we run ([Reference H…
19th Century
Anglican
The high calling of God.—Properly, the calling which is above—that is (much as in Colossians 3:12), “the heavenl…
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Baptist
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…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
I press toward the mark The allusion is to the white line, or mark, which the runners in the Olympic games made up t…
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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…
13th Century
Catholic
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…
