...magnified in my body, whether it be by life or by death. For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. And if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all," Phil, i, 10-21 ; ii, 17. Thus "the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep : but he that is a hireling,...

...my course with joy. I am ready not to be bound only, but to die also for the name of the Lord Jesus. If I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all." And in the next chapter but one to that in which the apostle is supposed to profess himself actually...

...and the time of my dissolution is at hand." As he says also to the Philippians, " If I am offered for the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all." They are said to have cried with a loud voice, as the voice of innocent blood is asserted elsewhere...

...that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not ran in vain, neither laboured in vain. 17 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all. 18 For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me. 19 But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send...

...almost to despair; to contemplate the possibility at least of his condemnation and martyrdom : — " Yea. and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all." No. I. BUT can we show that St Paul visited Ephesus after his liberation at Rome? or rather, can we...

...and they recognized the fact with disinterested satisfaction. ' Yea and if I be offered,' says Paul, 'upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all.' 25 ' Who now rejoice,' says he on another occasion, 'in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which...

...life ; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not ran in vain, neither labored in vain. Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you ell."t Are those the words of an impostor, desiring nothing but temporal power ? No, they are evidently...

...now, Christ should be magnified in his body, whether it were by life or by death." " Yea," says he, " and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all." Oh ! what a noble principle is this that renders a man willing to suffer and to die for Christ, " for...

...expected martyrdom: for he says, "I am ready to be offered up." 2 Tim. iv. 16. And again he says, " If I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all." Phil. ii. 17. The same kind of figurative language is still used, but no one ever thinks of taking...

...where he expresses the fullness of his affection to the Philippians : " Yea, and if I be offered up upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all." This is giving the body in the truest sense of spiritual sacrifice ; and we know whence he derived...