2 Corinthians 6:1

PART SECOND.

THE EXHORTATION TO UNITE IN HIS COLLECTIONS FOR JERUSALEM, 2 Corinthians 6:11 to 2 Corinthians 9:15.

1. Direct exhortation to largeness, separateness, and sanctification, 2 Corinthians 6:11 to 2 Corinthians 7:1.

With a soul swelling with his survey of the gospel of reconciliation as given in 2 Corinthians 5:13 to 2 Corinthians 6:2, and of his recital of the history of his struggles to bring that gospel to them, Paul calls upon his Corinthians to fall back upon the grandeur and purity of that gospel. His special assailants are out of view. He addresses the Corinthians as being the unit he had once left them, and seeks to rally them back to first principles.

He conjures them to as large a heart as his own, 2 Corinthians 6:11-13; to separate from all their old unrighteous associations, and to become, according to the blessed promise, the true sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty, 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; nay, to claim the higher promises, and rise to a perfected holiness, 2 Corinthians 7:1.

Corinthians An emphatic and joyous vocative. By pronouncing their name he would aim to reach their hearts. Twice elsewhere Paul thus calls, out of the regular address, his audience by name, the Galatians indignantly, the Philippians affectionately. Galatians 3:1; Philippians 4:15.

Mouth… open Being filled by the fulness of our heart. In the recital of our sufferings in your behalf we are aroused to a freedom of boundless utterance to your very souls.

Heart is enlarged Is broadened in its area, so as to admit you through its wide doors into its roomy home.