Christ lives in them.23 In particular notice 4:19: “I am in labor with you again until Christ be formed in you.”24 There is still life in a human body, of course. Paul is not asserting a nonbodily existence or escape from history. This is far from a negation of human life, since actual fleshly life is here paralleled with life in the realm of faith:25 I live in flesh.… I live in faith. But this life in the flesh is life in the realm of πίστις, life in the realm that belongs to God’s Son, “who loved
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