Matthew Poole and continuators on Philippians 3:20

20 For our conversation is in heaven , from whence also we * look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus .

He here adds a further reason why he would have them to be fellow-followers of him, and such like as he, because though they were not already in Heaven, yet their Citizenship was there, the privileges of that City did belong to them, who according to the Municipal Laws of that Corporation (which cannot lose its Charter or be discorporated) whereof they were free Denizons, made it their business to demean themselves with minds above the earth, ch. 1.27. 2 Cor. 4.18. Eph. 2.6. Col. 3.1. accounting nothing inconvenient to any one of them, which was for the advantage of the whole community, Ioh. 1.42. 2 Cor. 12.2. Heb. 13.14. they [illegible: 1 letter]et their affections on things above.

And reason good, for from thence or from that place, in the Heavens, or Heaven, Act. 1.11. 1 Cor. 1.7. 1 Thess. 1.10. 2 Tim. 4.8. Tit. 2.13. They stedfastly expect him who is both Lord and Christ, to come not onely as their judge, 2 Tim. 4.8. but as their heart comforting Saviour, Heb. 9.28.