"There are two way of knowing something. The first is by faith.... The second is by means of life experience.... There is an example in knowing about honey on the basis of it having been described by others as opposed to knowing it on the basis of tasting it ourselves. Thus physicians have knowledge of medicine and their effects on the basis of hearsay and also on the basis of the actual experience of the medicine in ourselves.... In our passage, the apostle is speaking about knowledge of the latter kind, which is nothing other than a certain spiritual sense and taste whereby, based on His power in us, we sense Him to be truly such as we previously heard and believed Him to be based on Scripture."
-Commentary on Philippians, 537.
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