(2:27). This last example is perhaps the most striking, since Paul has indicated earlier that he does not fear death (1:21–23). But if Paul knew the meaning of joy in sorrow, he also knew the meaning of grief in loss. Reading these verses, one cannot help but ask the question: Why did they do it—Paul, Timothy, and Epaphroditus? The odds against them were astronomical. The idea that they might win the world by spreading a message about a man who had been crucified and raised from the dead—a combination