Philippians 3:8 (WEB)
Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ
Catechism · 3
Sacred Scripture
“Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.” — Catechism footnote: DV 25; cf. Phil 3:8 and St. Jerome, Commentariorum in Isaiam libri xviii prol.: PL 24, 17B.
At the Wellsprings of Prayer
“For 'we speak to him when we pray; we listen to him when we read the divine oracles."'” — Catechism footnote: DV 25; cf. Phil 3:8; St. Ambrose, De officiis ministrorum 1, 20,88: PL 16, 50.
I Believe in Jesus Christ, the Only Son of God
“…the power of his resurrection, and (to) share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that if possible (he) may attain the resurrection from the dead".” — Catechism footnote: Phil 3:8-11.
Fathers and councils · 13
Ambrose of Milan
“And the Apostle teaches us how to dung it, saying: “I count all things but dung, that I may gain Christ,” and he, through evil report and good report, attained to pleasing Christ.” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 8.
Read the whole comment“On this the Apostle says well: “What things to me were gain, those I counted loss for Christ,” and he added: “Wherefore I count all things but loss, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ.”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 7, 8.
Read the whole comment“For as a rule most people call that only useful which is profitable, but we are speaking of that kind of usefulness which is sought in earthly loss “that we may gain Christ,” whose gain is “godliness with contentment.”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 8.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Which seemeth to me to be a sign of that punishment, wherewith a man will be tortured, if he shall have looked back upon things behind; which, as saith the Apostle, he ought to value as dung.” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 8.
Read the whole comment“…be found in Him, not having mine own righteousness which is of the law, but that which is of the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith;” and in another place, “That we may be the righteousness of God in Him.”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 8, 9.
Read the whole comment“…the Church, “What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ; and I have counted them not only loss, but even dung, that I might win Christ.”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 7, 8.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew
“…mysteries of the Law and the Prophets and the old observances in which he had lived blameless, counting them as dung that he may win Christ. [margin note: Phil 3:8] Not that the finding of a new pearl is the condemnation of the old pearls, but that in comparison of that, all other pearls are worthless.” — the author cites it
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Basil the Great
“This same man has flung away all the advantages of the world, counting them all loss that he may gain Christ, and has taken in his hand the helm of the ship, great and famous for its faith in God, the Church of Christ.” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 8.
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Jerome
“But one who has come to regard all the splendor of the world as off-scourings, and to hold all things under the sun as vain, that he may win Christ; one who has died with his Lord and risen again, and has crucified the flesh with its affections and lusts; he will boldly cry out: “Who shall separate us from…” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 8.
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Tertullian
“…simple and uniform, and as it exists merely in the mind: though in many forms likewise I labour after it in body, for the purpose of “winning the Lord;” inasmuch as it is a quality which has been exhibited by the Lord Himself in bodily virtue as well; if it is true that the ruling mind easily communicates the…” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 8.
Read the whole comment“These are also the things “which he counts but dung for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ” (but by no means for the rejection of God the Creator); “whilst he has not his own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through Him,” i.e. Christ, “the righteousness which is of God.”” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 8.
Read the whole comment- Tertullian, To His Wife II.2Book II
“Accordingly he subjoins withal a reason, that “we are called in peace unto the Lord God;” and that “the unbeliever may, through the use of matrimony, be gained by the believer.”” — editor's note: Comp. 1 Cor. vii. 15, 16 and Phil. iii. 8, in Vulg., for the word “lucrifieri.”
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“He crucified the world to himself, and being crucified to the world and the things which are seen, he thought all things little, and too small to be desired; even though from Jerusalem and round about unto Illyricum he had fully preached the Gospel, even though he had been prematurely…” — editor's note: Phil. iii. 8.
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Cross-references · 34
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.6.
Cited together in To His Wife II.2.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.4.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.4.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.4.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.4.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.1.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.1.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.6.
Cited together in Letters Letter 197.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.1.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.6.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.6.
Cited together in Letters Letter 197.
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 13:45–46 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 13:45–46 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.4.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.4.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.4.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.1.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.1.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.1.
Cited together in Letters Letter 197.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.1.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.1.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.6.
Cited together in To His Wife II.2.
Cited together in To His Wife II.2.
Cited together in To His Wife II.2.
Cited together in To His Wife II.2.
Cited together in To His Wife II.2.
Cited together in To His Wife II.2.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.6.
Cited together in Letters Letter 197.