Philippians 3:11

11. Attain unto the resurrection No doubt is implied of the resurrection of all men, “both of the just and unjust,” for on this point the apostle had put himself on record. Acts 24:15. But as Paul here uses for resurrection not simply the ordinary Greek word anastasis, uprising, but exanastasis, out-uprising, millenarians have found a reference to a supposed first resurrection in order of time. Note, 1 Corinthians 15:24.

This they find confirmed in the Greek preposition before the dead, a true rendering of the phrase being the out-uprising from (without the article) deads. But of the phrase from deads we have shown that the meaning may be a resurrection from their own dead selves, (Luke 20:35; 1 Corinthians 15:12,) that is, a resurrection from being dead. The prefix ex in exanastasis is, we suppose, as is often the case, simply intensive or emphatic, and brings out the meaning of extra-resurrection; that is, the glorious resurrection, or glorious side of the resurrection simultaneous with the inglorious resurrection of the wicked, as in John 5:26-29. It was to this glorious extra-resurrection that St. Paul aspired.