Verse 22
All of God’s servants were God’s gifts to them. The world (Gr. kosmos, universe) belongs to the Christian in the sense that we will inherit it and reign over it with Christ one day. Life and all it holds contains much blessing for us. Even death is a good gift because it will usher us into the presence of our Savior. This list is similar to the one in Romans 8:38-39 and, as there, is a way of saying "everything." The figure of speech is a merism. In a merism objects that are poles apart are intended to encompass everything between them.
"The five things . . . represent the fundamental tyrannies of human life, the things that enslave us, the things that hold us in bondage." [Note: Carson, p. 86.]
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