Philippians 3:14

One thing. I do is supplied. Some supply I count, which is less appropriate, since what follows is concerned with action rather than with thinking or reckoning.

Reaching forth [ε π ε κ τ ε ι ν ο μ ε ν ο ς]. Only here in the New Testament.

Epi direction, after; ejk forth; teinw to stretch. Rev., stretching forward. The metaphor is that of the footrace. Bengel says : "The eye outstrips and draws onward the hand, and the hand the foot."