not unto the God who made the world. The world, in the apostle’s sense, here means life and conversation according to worldlyprinciples; it is in renouncing these that we and they are mutually crucified and mutually slain. He calls them “persecutors of Christ.”5382
Anf-03 iv.ix.xi Pg 15 In ligno. There are no such words in the LXX. If the words be retained, “thy life” will mean Christ, who is called “our Life” in Col. iii. 4. See also John i. 4; xiv. 6; xi. 25. And so, again, “Thou shalt not trust (or believe) thy life” would mean, “Thou shalt not believe Christ.”
before thine eyes; and thou shalt not trust thy life.”