So then death worketh in us, but life in you See 1 Corinthians 4:9. The Apostle here enunciates a principle common to the material and the spiritual world. From death comes life, from decay regeneration. The death of Christ was the life of the world; the daily dying (1 Corinthians 15:31) of His disciples, by virtue of the same Spirit that lives in Him, is the means whereby that life spreads among mankind. Death may be said to be working in Christ's ministers, because of their visible sorrows, anxieties, persecutions (but see 2 Corinthians 4:16); life in their converts, because of the visible change in their character and acts. Cf. Plato, Phaedo, ch. 16: " -What is that which is produced from life?" -Death," he said. -What then," replied he, -from death?" -It must be confessed that life is." "

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