The question belongs to Paul's teaching on the resurrection of the dead, which answers doubts about how the dead are raised and with what kind of body they come. The mortal body's matter need not become the immortal body, because continuity of identity lies in organization rather than in keeping the same particles. The hourly standing in jeopardy means living in continual, real danger because of work for the gospel. That danger was endured for the sake of Christ and for Jesus' sake and for the salvation of others.
It especially describes labor at Ephesus, carried on tirelessly and with untiring zeal amid mob attacks, insults, abuse, and battling opposition. There the work was sustained by manual labor with his own hands to supply necessities, done in weariness and pain. With it went heavy responsibility and burden for the churches while guarding a church still young in the faith. Physical weakness, distress, disease, and at times depression of spirit were also endured.
The danger and suffering included stripes and imprisonment, persecution, hunger and thirst and cold and exposure. There were perils by land and by sea and in the city and in the wilderness, from his own countrymen and from the heathen and from enemies and false brethren. Defamation, reviling, perplexity, and affliction on every side belonged to the same lot. Amid constant opposition, the clamor of enemies, and the desertion of friends he almost lost heart, yet he steadfastly pursued his work. By looking back to Calvary he pressed on with new ardor to spread the knowledge of the Crucified, treading the blood-stained path Christ had trodden before him and seeking no release from the warfare until laying off his armor at the feet of his Redeemer.
The question belongs to Paul's teaching on the resurrection of the dead, which answers doubts about how the dead are raised and with what kind of body they come. The mortal body's matter need not become the immortal body, because continuity of identity lies in organization rather than in keeping the same particles. The hourly standing in jeopardy means living in continual, real danger because of work for the gospel. That danger was endured for the sake of Christ and for Jesus' sake and for the salvation of others.
It especially describes labor at Ephesus, carried on tirelessly and with untiring zeal amid mob attacks, insults, abuse, and battling opposition. There the work was sustained by manual labor with his own hands to supply necessities, done in weariness and pain. With it went heavy responsibility and burden for the churches while guarding a church still young in the faith. Physical weakness, distress, disease, and at times depression of spirit were also endured.
The danger and suffering included stripes and imprisonment, persecution, hunger and thirst and cold and exposure. There were perils by land and by sea and in the city and in the wilderness, from his own countrymen and from the heathen and from enemies and false brethren. Defamation, reviling, perplexity, and affliction on every side belonged to the same lot. Amid constant opposition, the clamor of enemies, and the desertion of friends he almost lost heart, yet he steadfastly pursued his work. By looking back to Calvary he pressed on with new ardor to spread the knowledge of the Crucified, treading the blood-stained path Christ had trodden before him and seeking no release from the warfare until laying off his armor at the feet of his Redeemer.