NOTES for Gal 2:20

To appreciate all the splendor of this formulation, one must enter into the meaning of the word "to live." Does all our spending of time deserve this name? It appears that Paul singles out those segments of time or events that are spiritually filled, and not by sin, but by its opposite, righteousness. This is precisely life for him, and he considers that the very possibility of such life has been brought by Christ; it is His righteousness realized in Paul's life, and therefore it is the life of Christ in Paul.

But there are also other moments in our being when everything is not so good. Paul calls this life in the flesh, and in principle, as Paul himself wrote, it is not so much life as dying. Yet even here there is the possibility of transfiguration: faith in the Son of God becomes the path of overcoming death.