16. The expectation of a new revelation is not to make you less
careful in walking according to whatever degree of knowledge of divine
things and perfection you have already attained. God makes further
revelations to those who walk up to the revelations they already have
(Ho 6:3).
rule, let us mind the same thing--omitted in the oldest manuscripts.
Perhaps partly inserted from
Ga 6:16,
and Php 2:2.
Translate then, "Whereunto we have attained, let us walk on (a military
term, march in order) in the same (the measure of knowledge
already attained)."
JFB.
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