The paradox seems to have been a favorite form of expression with St. Paul, and nowhere does he use it more effectively than in his references to death.
Alert Christian believers he describes as, "dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God." To the Galatians he says, "Dead to the law, that I might live unto God, I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live." To the Romans he writes that death "passed upon all men, for that all have sinned," and then with answering exultation he asserts, "The law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death." To the Corinthians he declares, "I die daily," and in the same chapter we hear the antiphonal note of his triumphant paean, "Death is swallowed up in victory."
To those who entertain that concept of death which legitimately attaches to the belief of life in material organization, these statements must seem very puzzling, if not inexplicable; to the Christian Scientist they are not only intelligible but scientific and inspiring.
