George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Philippians 1:21
To live is Christ. If it be his will that I live, my life shall be spent in his service. --- To die, and suffer martyrdom, will be my gain, by coming to the enjoyment of Christ sooner. (Witham)
To live is Christ. If it be his will that I live, my life shall be spent in his service. --- To die, and suffer martyrdom, will be my gain, by coming to the enjoyment of Christ sooner. (Witham)
Verse 21. _FOR TO ME TO LIVE_ IS _CHRIST_] _Whether I live or die,_ _Christ is gain to me_. While I live I am Christ's property and servant, and Christ is my portion; if I die-if I be called to witne...
FOR TO ME TO LIVE IS CHRIST - My sole aim in living is to glorify Christ. He is the supreme End of my life, and I value it only as being devoted to his honor - Doddridge. His aim was not honor, learni...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. CHRIST, THE CONTROLLING PRINCIPLE OF THE BELIEVER'S LIFE CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The introduction (Philippians 1:1)_ 2. The fellowship in the gospel (Philippians 1:3) 3. The apo...
PHP_1:19-26. HIS PROSPECTS. The successful preaching of the gospel will turn to his own salvation. Otherwise he would be put to shame. His desire is that in his person, whether by life or by death, Ch...
A FRIEND TO HIS FRIENDS (Php_1:1-2)...
For living is Christ to me, and death is gain. And yet--what if the continuance of my life in the flesh would produce more fruit for me? What I am to choose is not mine to declare. I am caught between...
ME. _Emph_. live. Compare App-170. gain. Greek. _kerdos._ Here, Philippians 3:7; Titus 1:11. Not to Paul, but to Christ, as is clear from Philippians 1:20. To Paul, life and death were of no account s...
The same subject: the Alternative of Life or Death: Expectation of Life 21. _For_, &c. He takes up and expands the thought of the alternative just uttered, and the holy "indifference" with which he w...
ἘΜΟῚ ΓᾺΡ. Ἐμοὶ is emphatic, with the force not of self-assertion but of intense personal experience. This passage is linked with the former by explaining the secret of his holy equanimity in this susp...
THE SAME SUBJECT: THE ALTERNATIVE OF LIFE OR DEATH: EXPECTATION OF LIFE...
ΖΗΝ _praes. act. inf. от_ ΖΆΩ (G2198) жить. Артикулированный _inf._ является подлежащим предложения: "жизнь как действие" (GGBB, 601). Длительный _praes._ (Vincent), ΆΠΟΘΑΝΕΪ́Ν _aor. act. inf. от_ Ά...
DISCOURSE: 2140 ST. PAUL’S DILEMMA Philippians 1:21. _To me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. For I...
TO ME TO LIVE IS CHRIST, &C.— "He is the supreme end of life, and I value it only as it is capable of being referred to the purposes of his honour; and, in consequence of that, _to die is gain:_ for a...
OUTLINE OF 1:19-26 C. Paul's confidence in life or death; Philippians 1:19-26 1. Confidence that his experiences would turn out to salvation; Philippians 1:19 a. Through your supplication. b....
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. FOR. In either event () I must gain, "For to me," etc. TO LIVE IS CHRIST. 'Life is but another name for Christ' (Peile) (). There faith is the promin...
1 This epistle was not written by Paul and Timothy in the character of _ apostles_, but _ slaves_. This is important, as it gives us a key to the character of the whole letter. The mention of the over...
THE PRISONER APOSTLE IN ROME § 1. Address and Salutation (Philippians 1:1). Philippians 1:1; Philippians 1:2. The form of greeting in...
TO LIVE] as distinguished from TO LIVE IN THE FLESH (Philippians 1:22), means 'life essential': cp. 1 Timothy 6:19; Colossians 3:1 is the true commentary on...
LETTER OF JOY Paul’s Letter to the Philippians _HILDA BRIGHT_ INTRODUCTION THE CHURCH AT PHILIPPI Luke described the city called Philippi as a *Roman ‘*colony’ (Acts 16:12). The *emperor Augustu...
TO LIVE IS CHRIST. — This, of course, means “Christ is my life,” yet not in the sense that He is the source and principle of life in us, but that the whole concrete state of life is so lived in Him th...
[2. Statement of St. Paul’s condition at Rome (Philippians 1:12). (1) THE RAPID PROGRESS OF THE GOSPEL through his bonds, and through the preaching of others, whether in strife or in goodwill (Phili...
(19-24) In these verses, under the power of that feeling of joy of which he speaks above, St. Paul unveils to the Philippians his most sacred aspirations and convictions, and the division of feeling i...
CHAPTER 4 THE CHOICE BETWEEN LIVING AND DYING. Philippians 1:21 (R.V.) AT the close of the preceding section we see that the ruling principle of the Apostle-the earnest expectation and hope which in...
DEATH OR LIFE MEANS CHRIST FOR HIM....
ἐμοί. Why this emphasis? He knew that, after the expression of his joyful confidence and hope, the word θάνατος would come as a shock to their minds. There could be no question as to how men in genera...
“TO LIVE IS CHRIST, AND TO DIE IS GAIN” Philippians 1:12 It was a matter of comparative indifference to Paul what happened to himself so long as the gospel progressed, because the extension of the go...
This letter is in itself a revelation of Christian experience. The word “sin" is not mentioned. The flesh is referred to only that it may be ignored. It is characterized by a revelation of the mind of...
PAUL'S EAGER LONGING Vine says the word translated "earnest expectation" means "primarily a watching with outstretched head....signifies strained expectancy, eager longing, the stretching forth of the...
(15) Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will: (16) The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds: (17) But the other...
There is no epistle in the New Testament which gives so little space to the development of. doctrine as this to the Philippians. Need it be said that it has not the less its own proper office on that...
_THE SECRET OF LIFE_ ‘To me to live is Christ.’ Php_1:21 What was the secret of St. Paul’s life, that secret which made him the greatest of all missionaries to the Gentile world? We have not to go...
21_For to me to live_. Interpreters have hitherto, in my opinion, given a wrong rendering and exposition to this passage; for they make this distinction, that Christ was life to Paul, and death was ga...
The affection of the Philippians, which expressed itself by sending help to the apostle, reminded him of the spirit they had always shewn; they had cordially associated themselves with the labours and...
FOR TO ME TO LIVE IS CHRIST,.... Christ was his life "efficiently", the efficient cause and author of his spiritual life; he spoke it into him, produced it in him, and disciplined him with it: and he...
For to me to live _is_ Christ, and to die _is_ gain. Ver. 21. _And to die is gain_] Because death to a good man is the daybreak of eternal brightness, _ianua vitae, porta caeli, _ the door to life, t...
_For to me to live is Christ_ As my life, both natural and spiritual, is from Christ, so to serve and enjoy him is the supreme end of my life, and I value it only as it is capable of being employed in...
IS CHRIST; his great object was the glory of Christ, and the favor of Christ was his chief joy. TO DIE IS GAIN; it would be more for his happiness than to continue on earth....
The apostle satisfied if only Christ is magnified:...
FOR TO ME TO LIVE IS CHRIST AND TO DIE IS GAIN. Without discussing the right to preach or the absence of such a right on the part of these men that are preaching with false and sinful motives, Paul's...
Consistently with the character of the epistle, in his addressing the Philippians, Paul does not do so as an apostle, but linking Timothy's name with his own, makes use of the lowlier title, "servants...
Pioneers Wanted 1 Peter 1:12-26 1. KEY WORDS 12 Fallen out, futherance, gospel 13 Bonds, manifest, palace 14 Waxing, confident, bold, speak 15 Preach, envy, strife, good will 16 Contention, sin...
“FOR TO ME TO LIVE IS CHRIST, AND TO DIE IS GAIN” “For to me”: “Whatever may be true of others, this he knows to be true of himself. There are, indeed, countless others of whom it is not true” _(Erdma...
21-26 Death is a great loss to a carnal, worldly man, for he loses all his earthly comforts and all his hopes; but to a true believer it is gain, for it is the end of all his weakness and misery. It...
Some read it: For Christ is my gain in life and in death; or: For Christ is to me both in life and in death advantage. Both acknowledge it to be brought in as a reason of Paul's hope in life and death...
Cyprian Epistle LXXVI I bid you, most blessed and most beloved brethren, ever farewell in the Lord, and always and everywhere remember me.[16] Cyprian Treatise VII On the Mortality Remembering whic...
Php_1:21 For G1063 me G1698 live G2198 (G5721) Christ G5547 and G2532 die G599 (G5629) gain G2771 to live - Php_1:20, Php_2:21;...
‘For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.' These words in context have two parallel meanings arising out of the context. Unquestionably they include the thought that for Paul and for all true...
PAUL STRESSES THAT HE FACES THE FUTURE DECISION TO BE MADE BY ROME ABOUT HIM WITH CONFIDENCE. TO LIVE WILL MEAN THAT HE CAN CONTINUE TO SERVE GOD'S PEOPLE. TO DIE WILL MEAN THAT HE ENTERS STRAIGHT INT...
Philippians 1:21. FOR TO ME TO LIVE IS CHRIST. My life will be His service wherein I shall consequently enjoy His grace and help. So that it will be work for Christ done through Christ who strengthene...
_The Progress of the Gospel in_ _Rome St. Paul's desire to depart His Exhortation and Encouragement to the Philippians,_ 12-30, In spite of St. Paul's imprisonment, the Gospel has not been bound, and...
FOR TO ME (εμο γαρ). Fine example of the ethical dative. Paul gives his own view of living.TO LIVE IS CHRIST (το ζηιν Χριστος). No copula (εστιν), but το ζηιν (the act of living present active in...
Philippians 1:21 There is a triple movement of thought and feeling in these words. I. There is the strong absorbing devotion which a man has to Christ. Here we get the grand noble simplicity and unit...
Philippians 1:21 The Fruit of Labour. Such words can never lose their power. They come down to us from a purer air; yet the voice is human, and is audible to all who feel. They sum up the constant t...
Philippians 1:21 I. "To me to live is Christ." The connection in which these words stand seems to give us their primary meaning. The business of my life is Christ; my energy, my activity, my occupatio...
Philippians 1:20 I. "Expectation" and "hope" these are words which connect the heart with the future. II. No power can so light up the future and throw over it the hues of immortal beauty as childli...
Philippians 1:21. _For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain._ «To me to live is Christ.» If he lived, he lived to know more of Christ studying his person, and learning by his happy experience...
Philippians 1:12. _But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the thing, which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel; so that my bonds in Christ are manifest...
CONTENTS: Triumph of the believer over suffering and persecution. CHARACTERS: Christ, Holy Spirit, God, Paul, Timothy, Epaphroditus. CONCLUSION: Those who desire that Christ may be magnified in their...
Philippians 1:1. _Paul and Timotheus._ The latter is associated as a fellow-labourer, and an apostolic man with himself. They had together planted churches, at the hazard of their lives, and their lab...
FOR WHAT IS LIFE? Paul's main thought is whether Christ will be honored by his life or his death. Compare Acts 21:11-13 and notes. Death would bring more to him personally, as he would escape from suf...
PHILIPPIANS—NOTE ON PHILIPPIANS 1:21 Paul’s life is all about the advancement of Christ’s kingdom. Thus, TO LIVE means serving CHRIST. TO DIE IS...
PHILIPPIANS—NOTE ON PHILIPPIANS 1:12 Paul’s Reflections on His Imprisonment. Paul assures the Philippians that the gospel is still advancing even though he is in prison (vv....
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Philippians 1:19. THIS SHALL TURN TO MY SALVATION.—“_Salvation_ in the highest sense. These trials will develop the spiritual life in the apostle, will be a pathway to...
EXPOSITION PHILIPPIANS 1:1 PAUL AND TIMOTHEUS. St. Paul does not assume his official title in writing to the Macedonian Churches, Philippi and Thessalonica; it is used in all his other Epistles, exc...
Now, that we might continue to grow in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior, let us turn to Philippians 1. Paul the apostle was arrested in Jerusalem, held in prison in Caesarea for two years until he...
2 Corinthians 2:3; 2 Corinthians 7:16; 2 Corinthians 8:22; 2 Thessalonians 3:4;...
To me. Emphatic. Whatever life may be to others, to me, etc To live is Christ [τ ο ζ η ν χ ρ ι σ τ ο ς]. Lit, the living is Christ. Compare Galatians 2:20. He has no thought of life apart from Christ....
PREACHING CHRIST Philippians 1:15 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Some preach Christ of envy and strife. Of one thing we are sure: we are commanded to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered. Of anoth...
To me to live is Christ — To know, to love, to follow Christ, is my life, my glory, my joy....
Our apostle had declared, in the foregoing verse, his firm expectation that Christ would be magnified and glorified by him, both in life and death; in this verse he discovers what reason he had to thi...