Concerning zeal, persecuting the church;— All that the Apostle can mean here is, that if a zeal for the law were, as the Jews thought it, a ground of confidence, he could lay claim to it with abundant propriety; since his zeal had been so great for it, as to lead him to persecute the Christians, because he thought they dishonoured it. The righteousness which is in the law, both here and in Philippians 3:9 refers to the conformity which he lived in to the ritual or ceremonial part of the Mosaic la
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Philippians 3:6
6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.