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expression is associated with "none other things than those which Moses and the
Prophets did say should come".
Turning to Rom. 1: 4 we read, "Declared to be the Son of God with power . . . . . by
the resurrection of the dead" (ex anastaseos nekron). From these passages it is evident
that the Lord's personal resurrection is spoken of in Scripture with the prefix ek
sometimes before nekron and sometimes before anastaseos.
In Luke 20: 35 the words, tes anastaseos, tes ek nekron occur, which give one more
approximation to Phil. 3: 11, and, moreover, supply a context that should not be
ignored:--
"But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtains that age, and that resurrection
which is out from dead ones (tes anastaseos, tes ek nekron) neither marry nor are given in
marriage."
The double article tes . . . . . tes is seen to much the same effect in the words tou
aionos ekeinou, "the age, that one". The articles here particularize and point out, just as
they do in Phil. 3: 10, 11, and we have indicated their influence by writing "that . . . . .
that . . . . . which" in italics. The context throws further important light on the subject. It
speaks of being "accounted worthy to obtain" that resurrection. This brings it nearer to
the conception of Phil. 3: 10, 11, where the context speaks of, "if by any means I might
attain" and "the prize of the high calling".
One further feature which is of the utmost importance is the unchanging meaning of
the words "of dead ones", or, "of the dead". Christ's own resurrection was out from
literally dead ones, not from those spirituality dead. The resurrection spoken of in
Luke 20: is from among the literally, physically, dead. What authority can any man
possess to-day to set aside this canon of interpretation, and if Phil. 3: 11 is a special
resurrection out from among literally, physically, dead ones, the semi-gnostic teaching
that is being foisted on to it vanishes. Phil. 3: 11 is unique, but it is not isolated, neither
must it be so interpreted as to remove from under this top stone the steps that assuredly
lead up to it.
THE OUT-RESURRECTION OF
Phil. 3: 11.
THE OUT-RESURRECTION OF
Acts 26: 23, and Rom. 1: 4.
THE RISING OUT FROM DEAD ONES
(Mark 9: 9, 10).
THE RESURRECTION OF DEAD ONES
(Heb. 6: 2, Acts 23: 6).
"That I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His
sufferings, being made conformable unto His death" (Phil. 3: 10).