Philippians 3:13

13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do , forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

Ver. 13. I count not myself ] Si dixisti satis est, periisti. Satiety is a dangerous disease, and the next step to a declension. The eagle’s emblem is sublimius; a loftier position, the sun’s celerius, swifter, Psalms 19:3 ; the wheat’s perfectius, more ripened, Mark 4:28 ; Ezekiel’s profundius, more depth, Ezekiel 47:4 ; Christ’s superius, more exaltation,Luke 14:10; Luke 14:10 ; and Paul’s ulterius more humiliation.

Reaching forth ] επεκτεινομενος , straining and stretching out head and hands and whole body to lay hold on the mark or prize proposed. A manifest metaphor from runners in a race, qui caput, totumque corpus, et vires exerunt, ae praecipites ad scopum ruunt, who throw themselves forward like a dart, and stretch out their arms to take hold of the mark. Prone et quasi praecipiti corpore ferri ad scopum. (Beza a Lapide.)