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Many modern critics fail to understand Paul because they fail to understand Jesus, and therefore do not know Jesus as Paul knew him—a critical error. In Paul’s Joy in Christ: Studies in the Philippians, Robertson asserts that “nowhere is the tender side of Paul’s nature better shown than here: his delicacy, his courtesy, his elevation of feeling, his independence, his mysticism, and his spiritual...

underlies all the storm-tossed waves on the surface. Paul’s joy is not grounded in earthly conditions, but in Christ. No one can rob Paul of Christ or of his joy in Christ. Christ satisfies Paul’s soul. Christ is his all and in all. He needs naught else to make his soul sing aloud for sheer joy, to sing aloud and to sing long. Men differ in their opinion as to the sweetest song-bird. Some say the nightingale, some the mocking-bird, some the English skylark, some the Kentucky cardinal, some the wood-robin.
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