The Constancy of Paul's Purpose to Live Christ
A. K. H. Boyd, D. D. Philippians 1:21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. Changed and varied the scenes around might be, but the heart was always the same: true to its one grand object far more steadily than the magnetic needle which does not always point to the north. The pinched miser might for a minute forget his wealth: a spring of something better might gush unawares in the ambitious man's heart, and make him forget the aim of his ambition: the watching mother might for a brief instant be startled into a forgetfulness that would take away the heavy burden of the seldom ceasing remembrance of her little dying babe: but the moment never came and the place never was, in which the great Apostle of the Gentiles forgot his Saviour. Was it too much, then, when looking over a life thus leavened and pervaded, he said, with a truthfulness of which words were but poor expression, "To me to live is Christ!" (A. K. H. Boyd, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. WEB: For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.