“According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.”
As it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be ashamed in anything, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death — Paul's apologia (expectation, literally 'waiting-away' apokaradokia) is Christ-centered: whether acquitted or executed, his only concern is Christ's honor (doxa). 'In my body' (en tō sōmati mou) grounds dignity in embodied existence, not abstract spirituality. The either/or ('life or death') is transcended by the both/and of Christ's magnification.
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