Bullinger on Phil 3.11

With regard to Phil. 3:11: “The resurrection of the dead,” there is more than one thing to remark. First, note that the word “resurrection” here is not the ordinary word. It is ἐξανάστασις (exanastasis), out-resurrection. Secondly, that the reading τὴν ἐκ (teen ek), which is from or out of, must be inserted in the Text, according to the R.V. and all the Critical Greek Texts. So that the words read: “If by any means I may arrive at the out-resurrection, that which is from among the dead.” We must note, further, that Paul’s stand-point here is that of a Jew. He has been showing all through the chapter what was his standing in the flesh, and what his gains were as a Jew. He is willing, he says, to give up all that he once counted “gain” as a Jew, that he might attain to this blessed and new revelation of a resurrection from among the dead, which was a secret not before revealed—brought to light by Christ and His Gospel (see 1 Cor. 15:51). It is not that he, as a Christian, having this hope, desired to attain to something higher, which other Christians (or all of them) would not enjoy; but that he, as a Jew, counted his gains but loss, that he might enjoy this blessed hope of the out-resurrection at Christ’s appearing.

Ethelbert William Bullinger, Figures of Speech Used in the Bible (London; New York: Eyre & Spottiswoode; E. & J. B. Young & Co., 1898), 998–999.