“Crucified with Christ, I Live” (1)

By Martyn McGeown. Originally published on the RFPA blog on 6/3/2019. _________ Dead to the Law Paul begins Galatians 2:19 with this assertion, “I am dead,” or (better) I died.” The difference between “I am dead” and “I died” is the difference between a state of being (dead) and a completed action in the past (died). You might express it thus: “I died,” with the result that “I am dead.” The truth that Paul died presupposes that before he died, he had lived—or he had been alive. Such is the...