ACC ~ Galatians 6 v14b

THE WORLD DEAD TO ME AND I TO THE WORLD. CHRYSOSTOM: By “world” he means not heaven nor earth but the affairs of life, human praise, distinguished positions, reputation, wealth and all things that have a show of splendor. All such things are dead to me. Such should be the case for all Christians. Nor is he satisfied only with the former ordinary mode of dying, but he also introduces another kind of death: dying to the world itself. HOMILY ON GALATIANS 6.14.

THE WORLD CRUCIFIED THROUGH CHRIST SINCE HE SUFFERED FOR ALL. MARIUS VICTORINUS: When Paul writes that the cross is glory, he means obviously “the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.” When in that mystery his body hung from the cross and in it crushed the power of this world, the whole world was crucified through him. In the cross he identified with every person in the world. In doing so, he made everything that he suffered universal, that is, he caused all flesh to be crucified in his death. Therefore I too am fixed to the cross and to the world. I means the one who was living carnally, whose thoughts were of the flesh. Such a one is now “nailed to the world,” that is, the worldly things in him are subjected to death. EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 2.6.14.

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