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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...

completely that Paul has lost his autonomy and willful independence of Christ. He is the glad slave of Christ. He “is crucified with Christ”1 in spiritual identity. This is mysticism, but reality, the deepest reality of life for Paul, who has been initiated into the mystery of Christ (Col. 2:2). So then Paul is able to say that life with him has come to mean Christ, no less and no more. “To go on living”2 means more of Christ, living the “Christ life” in the real sense of that term. Bengel3 has
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