love, the
resultant of the One Spirit's work in you all, +wrestling side by
side+, with enemies and obstacles, +for [9]the faith of the Gospel+,
for the maintenance and victory of that reliance which embraces

Ver. 28. the truth of Christ; +and refusing to be+ (_me_) +scared out
of that attitude in anything by your+ (_ton_) +opponents+, the
unconverted world around you. +Such+ (_hetis_) calm united courage +is
to them an evidence+, a sure token, an omen, +of+ the +perdition+ which
awaits the obstinate foes of holiness, +but to you of+ the +salvation+
which awaits Christ's faithful witnesses. +And this, this+ condition
of conflict and courage, +is from God+; no mere blind result of
accidents, but His purpose.

Ver. 29. Yes, +because to you there has been granted[10] as an+ actual
+boon--for the sake of Christ not only the believing on Him but also
the suffering for His sake+;[11] a sacred privilege when it is involved
by

Ver. 30. loyalty to such a Master! So you will be +experiencing+[12]
(_echontes_) +the same conflict in kind+ (_oion_) (as you wrestle side
by side for your Lord against evil) +as that which you saw in me+, in
my case, when I was with you in those first days (Acts xvi.), _and_
which _you now hear of in me_, as I meet it in my prison at Rome.

The translation of our present section is completed. It has presented
rather more material than usual for grammatical remark and explanation;
constructions have proved to be complex, contracted, or otherwise
slightly anomalous; and points of order and emphasis have claimed
attention. But I trust that this handling of _the texture_ has only
brought more vividly into sight the holy richness and brightness of
_the design_. Sentence by sentence, we have been reading a message of
the first order of spiritual importance, as St Paul has spoken from his
own experience of the Christian's wonderful happiness in life and
death, and then, in his appeal to the Philippians, of the Christian's
path of love and duty.

Let us listen anew to each part of that precious message.

i. The Christian's Happiness in Life and Death.

In Adolphe Monod's volume of death-bed addresses, his _Adieux a ses
Amis et a l'Eglise_, one admirable chapter, the second, is devoted to
the passage before us, Phil. i. 21-26. From the borderland of eternity
the great French Christian looks backward and forward with St Paul's
letter in his hand, and comments there upon this divine possi