Chapter 2 denies the modern instinct to treat life as self-originating. My life is not finally mine because its source is not the isolated self.
That does not erase personhood. It puts personhood inside a larger order. If God is the source and owner of life, then the meaning of life has to be received before it can be constructed.
This is why the note presses against both pride and despair. Pride forgets life is given. Despair forgets life is held by a purpose larger than the self.