Section 4
To work out our salvation is to work out this pattern and to become in our experience a re print of the pattern. Christ as the pattern can be compared to a page of type used in printing a book, and our subjective experience of the pat tern becoming our salvation can be compared to the printing of the pages of a book. In making a book, each page of type is reprinted again and again until there are many copies. In our expe rience, the God-man Savior should be reprinted and become our subjective salvation. The very salvation we are to work out is Christ as our pattern.
MURMURINGS AND REASONINGS
The salvation in 2:12 is not salvation from the condemnation of God or from hell. Rather, salvation here refers to the salvation we expe rience day by day. In particular, it is salvation from murmurings and reasonings. In verse 14 Paul says, "Do all things without murmurings and reasonings." We need an instant salvation to deliver us from our murmurings and rea sonings.
We have pointed out that the sisters have a particular problem with murmurings, and the brothers, with reasonings. Usually the wives are