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Php 1:23 King James For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
For--The oldest manuscripts read, "But." "I know not (Phi 1:22), BUT am in a strait (am perplexed) betwixt the two (namely, 'to live' and 'to die'), having the desire for departing (literally, 'to loose anchor,' Ti2 4:6) and being with Christ; FOR (so the oldest manuscripts) it is by far better"; or as the Greek, more forcibly, "by far the more preferable"; a double comparative. This refutes the notion of the soul being dormant during its separation from the body. It also shows that, while he regarded the Lord's advent as at all times near, yet that his death before it was a very possible contingency. The partial life eternal is in the interval between death and Christ's second advent; the perfectional, at that advent [BISHOP PEARSON]. To depart is better than to remain in the flesh; to be with Christ is far, far better; a New Testament hope (Heb 12:24), [BENGEL].
 
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24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
6 For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
22 But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.
17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
59 And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
28 And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
19 Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:
1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: