This phrase suggests a conviction which has been reached after many a doubt and many a struggle, after much questioning and long groping in the darkness. When Paul says this, he is proclaiming a conviction which has satisfied his deepest need that neither death nor life can separate us from God. Life can be a worse enemy than death–more perilous, more mysterious, more awful. What dread chances it holds. When death comes, the risks have all been made.
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