Matthew Poole and continuators on Philippians 1:9

9 And this I pray , that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge , and all judgment.

Having praised God for their attainments, he returns (as v. 4.) in token of his love to his great petition for them.

Viz. that their love both to God and Man shew'd in their bounty to him, might as a rising stream from its springing fountain yet further flow out, and more abundantly communicate it self in all Christian Offices, and not abate (as it seems it afterwards did among the Ephesians, Rev. 2.4.) as our Saviour foretold it would doe in some, Mat. 24.12. 2 Tim. 1.13. & 4.10. but continue encreasing to the end, 1 Thess. 3.12.

Being founded on a sound and saving understanding of the things of God, and our selves, Ioh. 17.3. Rom. 3.20. Eph. 1.17. with 4.13. 2 Pet. 3.18. and an acknowledgment of the truth which is after godliness, Tit. 1.1.

In the practical judgment or internal sense, and particular experience, taste, and feeling the testimony of the Spirit in the Heart concerning the Grace of God, and Adoption, Rom. 5.1, 5. & 8.16, 17. & 14.17. when there is not onely a right notion in the Head, but a true sense and favour of Spiritual things in the Heart, Heb. 5.14. which is when knowledge is not onely an empty cloud in the Air, but becomes▪ effectual by falling down in a kindly showre upon the Heart warmed with the love of God, and the vertue of Christ's Resurrection, as he after gives his own experience, ch. 3.10. (like David's, Psal. 34.8.)

Marginal references: Or, sense.