ings, and not to his internal anxieties and sorrows. The dy- ing of [the L#rd] Jesus. The word KvpLov, of the JOord, is not found in the majority of the ancient manuscripts, and is therefore omitted in the later editions of the Greek Testa- ment. If this word be left out, the two clauses more nearly correspond. The dyiyig of Jesus then answers to the life of Jesus in the folloAA'ing clause. The word veKpwa-Ls is used figuratively in Rom. 4, 19, "the deadness of Sarah's womb." Here it is to be taken literally. It means proj^erly a slaying or putti7ig to deaths and then violent death, or simply death. The death of Jesus does not mean death on his account ; but such death as he suffered. Comp. 1, 5. Though the reference is principally to the dying of Christ, and the climax begun in the preceding verse is here reached, yet his other suflerings are not to be excluded. " The mortification of Jesus," says Calvin, " includes every thing which rendered him (i. e. Paul) despicable before men." Paul elsewhere refers to his con- stant exposure to death in terms as strong as those which he here uses. In Rom. 8, 36 he says, " We are killed all the day long," and 1 Cor. 15, 31, "I die daily." Compare also 1 Cor. 4, 9- 2 Cor. 11, 23. The death or sufierings of Christ were constantly, as it were, reproduced in the experience of the apostle. In the use of another figure he expresses the same idea in Gal. 6, 17. "I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus." The scars which I bear in my body mark me as the soldier of Christ, and as belonging to him as my divine Master, and as suifering in his cause.
lliat the life also of Jesus might he made manifest in our body. This expresses the design of God in allowing Paul to be thus persecuted and involved in the constant danger of death. The treasure of the gospel was committed not to an angel, but to Paul, an earthen vessel, and he was pressed, persecuted, cast down, and beset with deadly perils, in order that his preservation, his wonderful efficiency and astonishing success, should be a constant j^roof that Jesus lives, and not only exercises a providential care over his servants, delivering them out of all their perils, but also attends their labours with his own divine efficiency. Paul's deliverances, and the eftects of his preaching, made it manifest that Jesus lives. In Rom. 15, 18 the apostle says, "I will not dare to speak of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed;" and in Gal. 2, 8, "He that wrought efiectually in Peter to tlie apostlcship of the cir-