if. App-118.
I live. Literally, to live (is my lot),
this. i.e. gain to Christ.
fruit, &c. i.e. the result of my work,
wot. declare. Greek. gnorizo. Occ, twenty-four times. In classical Greek. to know or to make known, but in N.T. elsewhere translated make known, certify, declare, &c. See Philippians 4:6. His will was surrendered to God, so he made no choice as to life or death for himself, but there was something he earnestly desired, which he states in the next verse.