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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 5:11-19

Self-devotion of the ministry of reconciliation. read more

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 5:19

God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself. This and the many other passages of Scripture which always represent the atonement as the work of the blessed Trinity, and as being the result of the love, not of the wrath, of God, ought to have been a sufficient warning against the hideous extravagance of those forensic statements of the atonement which have disgraced almost a thousand years of theology ( Romans 5:10 ; 1 John 4:10 ). That God's purpose of mercy embraced all... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 5:20

Now then. It is, then, on Christ's behalf that we are ambassadors. This excludes all secondary aims. St. Paul uses the same expression in Ephesians 6:20 , adding with fine contrast that he is "an ambassador in fetters." As though God did beseech you by us; rather, as if God were exhorting you by our means . In Christ's stead; rather, we, on Christ ' s behalf, beseech you . Be ye reconciled to God. This is the sense of the embassy. The aorist implies an immediate acceptance... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:19

To wit - (Greek, Ὡς ὄτι Hōs oti), namely This verse is designed further to state the nature of the plan of reconciliation, and of the message with which they were entrusted. It contains an abstract, or an epitome of the whole plan; and is one of those emphatic passages in which Paul compresses into a single sentence the substance of the whole plan of redemption.That God was in Christ - That God was by Christ (ἐν Χριστῷ en Christō), by means of Christ; by the agency, or mediatorship of... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:20

Now then we are ambassadors for Christ - We are the ambassadors whom Christ has sent forth to negotiate with people in regard to their reconciliation to God, Tyndale renders this: “Now then are we messengers in the room of Christ.” The word used here πρεσβεύομεν presbeuomen, from πρέσβυς presbus an aged man, an elder, and then an ambassador) means to act as an ambassador, or sometimes merely to deliver a message for another, without being empowered to do any thing more than to explain or... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Corinthians 5:18-20

2 Corinthians 5:18-20. And all things, &c. These new things are all of God, the author of them, considered in this view as reconciling us to himself Removing our carnal mind, which was enmity against him, and taking us into his favour; by Jesus Christ Through whose sacrifice and intercession, merits and Spirit, these blessings are obtained. And hath given to us His ministers, and especially to his apostles; the ministry of reconciliation The gospel ministry, offering... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 5:11-21

The power of love (5:11-6:13)Because Paul knows that he is accountable to Christ, he knows what it means to fear the Lord, and this makes him more diligent in his service. God knows that his motives are pure and he trusts that the Corinthians know also (11).In making these statements, Paul is not trying to write a recommendation for himself. He is trying to give his supporters reason to be bold in defending him against those who criticize him (12). They may have seen him display his feelings in... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Corinthians 5:19

world . App-129 . not. App-105 . imputing . See Romans 2:3 ; Romans 4:6 . trespasses . App-128 . hath committed unto = placed in (Greek. en) . Compare 2 Corinthians 4:7 . word . App-121 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Corinthians 5:20

are ambassadors . Greek. presbeuo. Only here and Ephesians 6:20 . did beseech = is beseeching. App-134 . pray . App-134 . in . . . stead = on behalf of. Greek huper, as in 2 Corinthians 5:12 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:19

To wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not reckoning unto them their trespasses, and having committed unto us the word of reconciliation.GOD IN CHRISTGod was in Christ ... The English Revised Version (1885), the RSV and others revised the punctuation of this verse, omitting the comma after Christ, doing so for the sole purpose of avoiding the dogmatic affirmation that "God was in Christ"; but, even as the verse is allowed to stand without the comma, the meaning... read more