much for exit and how much for voice? How much for flight and how much for fight? And then, when do you just pull your turtle head back into the shell and play dead?
In 54 AD, Paul of Tarsus, the Apostle to the Gentiles, in a verse with links to exit and voice, wrestled with the same angel/demon.
On one hand, he wrote: “For me, to live is Christ, to die is gain. Yet which I shall choose I cannot tell” (Phil 1:21). For once, his regular apocalyptic eschatology, the horizontal primitive hope of the day of the Lord, which he fully expects to see in the flesh, gives way to a simple, vertical, Greek, gnostic eschatology, an immediate translation to glory. Troubles, trouble in the churches it may be, spark Paul’s momentary exit strategy, his longing to “depart and be with Christ.”
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