Section 6
may exercise patience with his wife. Eventually, however, this patience reaches its limit, and he becomes angry with her. Although our natural patience is so limited, Christ as patience is in exhaustible and immeasurable.
Even though Paul must have been mistreated in prison, he could be happy and display to the guards the unlimited greatness of Christ. In par ticular, Paul displayed Christ's inexhaustible pa tience. Christ certainly was magnified in Paul's physical body. Day by day, Paul was happy in the Lord. His happiness did not diminish as time went by. In his happiness he could show forth the im measurable Christ he experienced and enjoyed. By this way Paul expressed, exhibited, exalted, and extolled Christ. I do not believe that Paul was offended by the jailers or that he offended them. Rather, he was a living witness of Christ, testify ing of His ability, power, patience, love, and wis dom, all without measure. The guards may have considered Paul to be strange or peculiar, view ing him as possessing something which they did not have. What they sensed in Paul was Christ magnified. While he was in prison, Paul expressed the greatness of Christ in an enlarged way. He magnified Christ with all boldness both through