“pursuing down toward the mark for the prize.” See him flashing down the race course. He forgets the things which are behind. The word is a strong one, “completely forgetting.” Paul knew that the moment a Greek runner would think of the men behind him, the thud thud of their pounding feet, his speed would be slackened. So he presses home the lesson that when a child of God thinks of his past failures, the things he should have done and failed to do, the things he did which he should not have done,