ciimcision, the same was mighty in me towards the Gentiles." As the hfe of every believer is a manifestation of the life of Christ, (for it is not we that live, but Christ liveth in us, Gal. 2, 20,) so also was the apostolic life of Paul. As the life of Christ, however, is not only manifested in the spiritual life of his followers, and in the deliverance and success of his minis- ters, as it is not only made known in rescuing them from deadly perils, but is hereafter to be more conspicuously re- vealed in delivering them from death itself, it seems from v. 14 that Paul includes the resurrection in the manifestation of the life of Jesus of which he here speaks. We die (daily, and at last, literally) in order that the life of Christ may be re- vealed. This passage is thus brought into unison with Rom. 8, 1 7, " If so be that we suffer mth him, that we may be also glorified together;" and with 2 Tim. 2, 11, "If we be dead with him, we shall live with him." See 1 Peter 4, 13. 14. Rom. 6, 8. 9. John 14, 19, "Because I live, ye shall live also." The association is natural between deliverance from the dan- ger of death, and the ultimate deliverance from death itself. The following verses show that this association actually exist- ed in the apostle's mind, and that both were regarded as manifestations of the life of Christ, and therefore proofs that he still lives. In our body ; this does not mean simply in me. A special reference is made to the body, because Paul was speaking of bodily sufferings and death.
11. For we which Uve are ah^ays dehvered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the hfe also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
This is a confirmation and explanation of what precedes. Paul constantly bore about the dying of Jesus, for he was al- ways delivered to death for Jesus' sake. He was, as he says 1 Cor. 4, 9, ws eTTt^avarto?, as one condemned^ and constantly expecting death. TFe ichich are alive j rjixels ol ^wvtcs, we the living, i. e. although living, and therefore, it might seem, not the subjects of death. Death and life are opposed to each other, and yet in our case they are united. Though living we die daily. The words in this connection do not mean ' as long as we live,' or, ' we who are alive,' as in 1 Thess. 4, 1 7, where they designates the living as a class distinguished from the dead. They mark the peculiarity of Paul's condition as living although constantly delivered to death. 5