Filipenses 1:21

21. For to me So far as he is personally concerned, it is a matter of indifference whether he shall magnify Christ by living or by dying. To him personally, to live is Christ: his whole life, whether in prison or in freedom, with all his energy of body and soul, is consecrated to making Christ known as the only Saviour.

To die is gain That is, the paradisaic life is an immeasurable gain over this earthly life. And if, instead of speedy release, he shall die a martyr’s death, it will be known that he died for Christ; and so, in either issue, Christ will be magnified in his body. Yet as to himself, persecuted, suffering, imprisoned, death is more desirable than life. To die is aorist, to have died; pointing to, not the dying, but the state after death, the being with the Lord.