2 Corinthians 1:20 - Exposition

For all the promises of God in him are yea; rather, For so many as be the promises of God, in him is the yea . All the promises of God find in him their unchangeable fulfilment. He was "a minister to confirm the promises" alike to the Jews and the Gentiles ( Romans 15:8 , Romans 15:9 ); and "the premise of the eternal inheritance" can only be fulfilled in him ( Hebrews 9:15 ). And in him Amen. The true reading is," Wherefore by him also is the Amen to God, uttered by us to his glory" ( א , A, B, C, F, G, etc.). In Christ is the "yea" of immutable promise and absolute fulfilment; the Church utters the "Amen" of perfect faith and grateful adoration. Here, as in 1 Corinthians 14:16 , we have a proof of the ancientness of the custom by which the congregation utters the "Amen" at the end of praise and prayer. But as the "yea" is in Christ, so it is only through him that we can receive the grace to utter aright the "Amen" to the glory of God.