Philippians 3:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Let us, as many as are perfect As many as are genuine believers in Christ, thorough Christians, justified and regenerated, new creatures in Christ, and so fit for the Christian race of duty and suffering; be thus minded Minded as I have said that I am, namely, inclined and determined to press forward with zeal and diligence to still higher attainments in holiness, usefulness, and patient sufferings, till as Christ was, they are made in this world. Let us apply wholly to this one thing; and if in any thing In any of the particulars before mentioned; ye Any of you being yet weak in faith, wavering in hope, and imperfect in love, see Hebrews 6:11-12; 1 John 4:17-18; be otherwise minded Contented with, and resting in, past attainments, and sunk into a remiss and indolent frame of mind, destitute of zeal and Christian fervency; God If you be sincere, and truly desire it of him; shall reveal even this unto you Shall show you your error and your sin, and excite you to fresh zeal and diligence in your Christian calling. Nevertheless Let us remember this is on the supposition that, whereunto we have already attained Or, so far forth as we have already made any progress toward perfection, we walk by the same rule By which we have hitherto walked, and take care not to lose the ground we have already gained, which, by giving way to unbelief, diffidence, and distrust of God's love, power, and faithfulness engaged for us, or by sinking into lukewarmness and sloth, we should easily do. Macknight takes the passage in rather another sense, namely, as signifying “that such of the Philippians as sincerely feared the Lord, if they happened, from ignorance or prejudice, to think differently from the apostle concerning any important article of faith, would have their error discovered to them, not by a particular revelation, but by the ordinary influences of the Spirit, agreeably to Psalms 25:12, What man is he who feareth the Lord, him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.”