Filipenses 3

Augustine of Hippo · Comentário Patrístico (catena)

Filipenses 3:6

Before his conversion Paul fulfilled the law conspicuously, either through fear of the people or of God himself, even if he may have offended the law in his internal affections. But he was fulfilling the law through fear of punishment, not through love of righteousness. — ON TWO LETTERS OF PELAGIUS 1.15

Filipenses 3:9

Now what does he mean, "not having my own righteousness," when that law was not his but God's? He can only have called it his own righteousness because, although it was from the law, he used to think that he could fulfill it without the aid of the grace that is through Christ. — ON GRACE AND FREE WILL 26

Filipenses 3:15

The apostle speaks of himself as both perfect and imperfect: imperfect when he considers how much righteousness is still wanting in him but perfect in that he does not blush to confess his own imperfection and makes good progress in order to attain it. — ON TWO LETTERS OF PELAGIUS 3.19

Filipenses 3:15

All of us who are running the race perfectly should be aware that we are not yet perfect. The hope is that we may receive perfection in the place to which we are now running perfectly. — ON THE PERFECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTEOUSNESS 19

Filipenses 3:16

Hold true with the affections of the mind and habits of living, so that one is able to be perfectly in the possession of righteousness when, advancing day by day along the direct road of faith, one has already become a perfect traveler on the road. — ON WHAT IS DUE TO SINNERS 2.20