Article April 20, 1963 Issue

WORDS OF CURRENT INTEREST

[The words in this issue are related to the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly designated to be read in Christian Science churches on April 28, 1963.]

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended (Phil. 3:13)

It may be noted that several important and early manuscripts have at this point oupo (not yet) instead of simply ou (not); while the verb katalambano (apprehend) means literally "lay hold of; capture; appropriate." Taking this verse in connection with that which precedes it, we obtain this meaning: "I pursue, that I may capture that for which I was captured by Christ Jesus. Brothers, I do not consider that I have yet captured it."

Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner (II Tim. 1:8)

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