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to me to live is Christ." Paul's life was to live Christ. Christ was not only his life within but also his living without. He lived Christ because Christ lived in him (Gal. 2:20). He was one with Christ both in life and in living. He and Christ had one life and one living. They lived together as one person. Christ lived within him as his life, and he lived Christ without as his living.
An important matter for us to realize is that the Christ in Philippians 1:21 is the God-man. This can be proved by Paul's word in chapter two of Philippians. In 2:5 Paul says, "Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus." Then Paul goes on to say in the following verses that Christ subsisted in the form of God, but did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped. Instead, He emptied Himself, taking the form of a slave and becoming in the likeness of men (vv. 6-7). In verse 8 Paul continues his descrip tion of this God-man: "And being found in fash ion as a man, He humbled Himself, becoming obedient even unto death, and that the death of a cross." From this description we see that the Christ in Philippians 1 is the God-man in Phi lippians 2. Therefore, to live Christ is to live the God-man.