“My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,”
My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you — Paul's maternal metaphor positions his apostolic labor as redemptive suffering ('odino' — birth pangs), with the goal being 'Christos morphoō' (Christ formed in them), a phrase suggesting the inward crystallization of Christ's character through faith and Spirit-inhabitation.
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