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To me
Emphatic. Whatever life may be to others, to me, etc
To live is Christ (τὸ ζῆν Χριστὸς)
Lit, the living is Christ. Compare Gal 2:20. He has no thought of life apart from Christ.
Gain
As consummating the union with Christ. Compare Col 3:4; 2Co 5:1-8.
“Declare unto him if the light wherewith
Blossoms your substance shall remain with you
Eternally the same that it is now,
And if it do remain, say in what manner,
After ye are again made visible,
It can be that it injure not your sight.
As by a greater gladness urged and drawn
They who are dancing in a ring sometimes
Uplift their voices and their motions quicken;
So, at that orison devout and prompt,
The holy circles a new joy displayed
In their revolving and their wondrous song.
Who so lamenteth him that here we die
That we may live above, has never there
Seen the refreshment of the eternal rain.”
Dante, “Paradiso,” 14, 13-27.