The Attainment of the Resurrection Dependent on Fellowship with Christ
E. L. Hull, B. A. Philippians 3:11 If by any means I might attain to the resurrection of the dead. Just as the perfect beauty of the flower lies dormant in the seed, and through its burial in the cold earth is invisibly developing itself, to bloom forth at the voice of spring, so the perfect beauty of the resurrection is hidden in the Christian now; and, by all his toil and struggle, that germ of glory is growing. Just as the mental power and strong determined will of the man are hidden in the child, and are maturing unconsciously through all the wonder of its infancy, so the resurrection manhood of the soul is lying in it during this childhood of Time; and by the education of fellowship with Christ, and struggle to be Christ-like, is advancing to its final splendour. (E. L. Hull, B. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. WEB: if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.