19. destruction--everlasting at Christ's coming.
Php 1:28,
"perdition"; the opposite word is "Saviour"
(Php 3:20).
end--fixed doom.
whose god is their belly--
(Ro 16:18);
hereafter to be destroyed by God
(1Co 6:13).
In contrast to our "body"
(Php 3:21),
which our God, the Lord Jesus, shall "fashion like unto His
glorious body." Their belly is now pampered, our body now wasted; then
the respective states of both shall be reversed.
glory is in their shame--As "glory" is often used in the Old Testament
for God
(Ps 106:20),
so here it answers to "whose God," in the parallel clause; and "shame"
is the Old Testament term contemptuously given to an idol
(Jud 6:32,
Margin).
Ho 4:7
seems to be referred to by Paul (compare
Ro 1:32).
There seems no allusion to circumcision, as no longer glorious,
but a shame to them
(Php 3:2).
The reference of the immediate context is to sensuality, and carnality
in general.
mind earthly things--
(Ro 8:5).
In contrast to
Php 3:20;
Col 3:2.
JFB.
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