The Pulpit Commentary - Philippians 3:7-8
All loss for Christ is gain. No one of the early Christians was favored with richer religious endowments or with higher rank than those enjoyed by St. Paul, and no one was called to make more heavy social and ecclesiastical sacrifices in entering the Church. Yet the apostle regarded his former wealth of privileges as so much loss because it was a hindrance to his receiving true wealth in Christ, and the winning of Christ as not simply a balance of profit, but as wholly a gain; so that,... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - Philippians 3:7
But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ ; literally, but such things as used to be gains to me , those I have counted as loss for Christ ' s sake. He used to regard these outward privileges, one by one, as so many items of gain; now he has learned to regard them, all in the aggregate, as so much loss because of Christ. They were loss because confidence in outward things tends to keep the soul from Christ. τοῦ γὰρ ἡλίου φανέτος , says Chrysostom, ... read more