For what it's worth, Eric, several months ago I went through
the NT uses of "EF' hWi" myself and came to much the same
conclusion: That it could fairly uniformly be approximated
by something like "on the basis of the fact that". And that
interpretation does seem to make sense in Philip. 3.12.
But I would be interested in reactions from those more
seasoned.
Regards,
Jim Vellenga