Key-word, “Gain;” Key-verse, 3:7, 14, 4:4.-This epistle is the disciple’s balance-sheet. Paul puts on one side all that was gain to him, and which he counted loss for Christ. Then he puts on the other side all that he won by the surrender, and will yet know and attain, and he finds himself infinitely richer. He forgets all he has forsaken, and presses on for the prize. “To live is Christ; to die is gain.” (Cf. 1:21; 3:7, 14.) [p. 117] HBS 44.1