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# former life
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"behavior at one time" or "prior life" or "earlier life"
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# I advanced
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This metaphor pictures Paul as being ahead of other Jews his age in their goal to be perfect Jews.
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# those who were my own age
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"the Jewish people who are the same age as I am"
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# fathers
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"ancestors"
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