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2 Corinthians 5:19
to wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the Word of Reconciliation.
to wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the Word of Reconciliation.
Verse 19. _THAT GOD WAS IN CHRIST_] This is the doctrine which this ministry of reconciliation holds out, and the doctrine which it uses to bring about the reconciliation itself. _God was in Christ_:...
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 abstrac...
6. CONCERNING THE FUTURE. THE MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION. CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The Earthly and the Heavenly House. (2 Corinthians 5:1 .)_ 2. The Judgment Seat of Christ. (2 Corinthians 5:9 .) 3. The Cons...
The emphasis is on the opening words of 2 Corinthians 5:11. Among the clouds of misrepresentation to which he was exposed was the sneering assertion that in some unworthy sense he persuades or gets ro...
So then, it is because we know the fear of the Lord that we keep on trying to persuade men, but to God we are already known through and through, and I hope that in your conscience, too, we will come t...
JOY AND JUDGMENT TO COME (2 Corinthians 5:1-10)...
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
The Christian Ministry one of Reconciliation 11. _the terror of the Lord_ i.e. "His to-be-dreaded judgment." Beza. This translation is due to the Geneva Version, following Beza and Calvin (Wiclif, _d...
_to wit, that_ i.e. this is the tenor of our message. _God was in Christ reconciling_ Or -that God in Christ was reconciling." Either translation is grammatically and theologically admissible. The for...
ὩΣ ὍΤΙ ΘΕῸΣ ἮΝ ἘΝ ΧΡΙΣΤΩ͂Ι ΚΌΣΜΟΝ ΚΑΤΑΛΛΆΣΣΩΝ ἙΣΥΤΩ͂Ι. The ὡς indicates that this is S. Paul’s view rather than an absolute statement: comp. 2 Corinthians 11:21; 2 Thessalonians 2:2. There are three w...
_A NEW CREATURE IN CHRIST 2 CORINTHIANS 5:16-21:_ Regeneration and reconciliation are both necessary if we are to be with God in heaven. Both regeneration and reconciliation are in Christ and by Chris...
ΏΣ ΌΤ а именно, что, так что. Это объявление о том, что сказано ранее (Hughes; Alford; RG, 1033). ΚΌΣΜΟΣ (G2889) мир, мир человеческих существ. _асс._ является прямым дополнением _part._ Это мир, кот...
DISCOURSE: 2022 THE MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION 2 Corinthians 5:19. _God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word...
TO WIT, THAT GOD WAS IN CHRIST,— _Namely,_ &c. Doddridge. _For God was in Christ,_ &c. Heylin....
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _The Ministry of Reconciliation Scripture_ 2 Corinthians 5:18-21. But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and gave unto us the ministry of reconci...
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 3 Fallibility of the Human Spirit (2 Corinthians 5:16-21) 16 From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view; even though we once regarded Christ from...
To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. GOD WAS IN CHRIST, RECONCILING. T...
16 Paul had been proclaiming the kingdom, with Christ and the nation which is related to Him by physical ties at its head. Entrance into that kingdom was by a birth from above. But now the figure of b...
5:19 that (f-25) Or simply 'of reconciliation.'...
The subject of 2 Corinthians 4 is continued. St. Paul has been pointing out that amid bodily weakness and decay he is encouraged by the thought that the temporal is transient, while the spiritual is e...
PARAPHRASE. 'Since, therefore, it is holiness alone that is of importance, we, unlike our opponents, pay no attention to men's outward appearance and circumstances; even in the case of Christ, though...
GOD WAS IN CHRIST, etc.] When we see Christ teaching, healing, forgiving, comforting, and dying for men, we are to see there the expression of God's love and deep desire. In this atoning work Christ w...
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 5 V1 We know this. Our body is like an *earthly tent. If our *earthly tent falls down, we will have a permanent building....
TO WIT, THAT GOD WAS IN CHRIST, RECONCILING THE WORLD. — Better, perhaps, _How that it was God who was reconciling in Christ a world unto Himself._ Both “God” and “world” are, in the Greek, without th...
CHAPTER 16 RECONCILIATION. 2 Corinthians 5:18 (R.V) "IF any man be in Christ," Paul has said, "there is a new creation; he is another man and lives in another world. But the new creation has the sam...
IN CHRIST ALL IS NEW, AS FROM GOD WHO RECONCILED THE WORLD TO HIMSELF IN CHRIST....
ὡς ὅτι Θεὸς ἦμ κ. τ. λ.: _viz., that God was reconciling the world, sc._ the whole human race (_cf._ Romans 4:13; Romans 11:12, and note the absence of the article), _to Himself in Christ_ (_cf._ Gala...
CONSTRAINED BY THE LOVE OF CHRIST 2 Corinthians 5:11 It was of small importance in Paul's eyes what his critics thought of him. He desired only to please his supreme Lord, whether he lived or died, w...
The vision of the house of God, and the coming at last to the Lord, throws its light on, and explains the value of, the groaning and the burden of the tabernacle, of the period of absence from the Mas...
VERSE 19 God gave us a means of having our sins forgotten and re-establishing our friendship with him. In turn, he wants us to tell others the terms of becoming God's friends....
To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath (p) committed unto us the word of reconciliation. (p) Used our labour and travail...
Not imputing, i.e. truly taking away our sins, blotting out the handwriting of the decree which was against us,...fastening it to the cross, as it is said, Colossians ii. 14. And to us, who are his ap...
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. (18) And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Chris...
19._God was in Christ. _Some take this as meaning simply — _God reconciled the world to himself in Christ; _but the meaning is fuller and more _comprehensive _— _first, _that God was in Christ; and, _...
What then is the effect of the possession of life in Christ as applied to death and judgment, the two natural objects of men's fears, the fruit of sin? If our bodies are not yet transformed; and if th...
TO WIT, THAT GOD WAS IN CHRIST RECONCILING THE WORLD UNTO HIMSELF,.... This expresses and explains the subject matter of the ministration of the Gospel, especially that part of it which concerns our r...
To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Ver. 19. _That God was in Christ, &...
_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...
NOT IMPUTING THEIR TRESPASSES; not punishing, but forgiving them. THE WORD OF RECONCILIATION; the gospel, making known the way, and inviting men to be reconciled to God....
Unquestioned certainty as to the future, and present confidence of faith are seen here further developed. "We know" is the proper language of Christianity. "The earthly house of this tabernacle" is of...
COMMITTED UNTO US: _ Gr._ put in us...
16-21 The renewed man acts upon new principles, by new rules, with new ends, and in new company. The believer is created anew; his heart is not merely set right, but a new heart is given him. He is t...
GOD WAS IN CHRIST, RECONCILING THE WORLD UNTO HIMSELF; by WORLD, here, some would understand all mankind, and by _reconciling, _ no more than making God reconcilable; but this proceedeth from an over...
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. [Christ's love, I say, constrains...
Methodius Oration Concerning Simeon and Anna "Cod was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them."[20] The Liturgy of the Blessed Apostles And they respond...
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‘But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation; to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning t...
GOD'S MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION (2 CORINTHIANS 5:11 TO 2 CORINTHIANS 6:2). Having spoken of God's work in the heart through His Spirit, and of the new covenant, followed by the revelation of the Chri...
2 Corinthians 5:19. TO WIT (to be more particular) THAT GOD WAS IN CHRIST, RECONCILING THE WORLD UNTO HIMSELF, NOT RECKONING UNTO THEM THEIR TRESPASSES. This shews conclusively, as already said, that...
TO WIT, THAT (ως οτ). Latin puts it _quoniam quidem_. It is an unclassical idiom, but occurs in the papyri and inscriptions (Moulton, _Prol_., p. 212; Robertson, _Grammar_, p. 1033). It is in Esther...
WORLD Greek, "kosmos", means "mankind". (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 4:8). _ TRESSPASSES SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
2 Corinthians 5:19 God in Christ. I. "God was in Christ." In the Son of Man, as He loves best to call Himself, who bows His head in death, who suffers the common lot of humanity, that very circumstan...
2 Corinthians 5:9. Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that everyone may receive the things done...
1. _For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens._ Is not this grand courage on the part of...
CONTENTS: Why death has no terrors for the Lord's servant. The motive and object of ministry for Christ. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: The servant of God who has the earnest...
2 Corinthians 5:1. _We know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God eternal in the heavens._ The contrast between a house made with hands, and a house ma...
OUR MESSAGE. The basis of the Good News is that God himself had acted and was making friends of those who had rebelled against him! KEEP AN ACCOUNT. _MacKnight_ says: "That God is by Christ bringing b...
_And all things are of God who hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ._ HIGH DOCTRINE Whatsoever the Christian can desire is to be found in the “all things.” But lest even that should not be...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 5:18 RECONCILIATION. These verses outline (1) the _basis_ of Paul’s apostolic ministry of the new covenant (Paul’s own reconciliation to God through Christ); (2) it...
CHAPTIER 5 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. The Apostle goes on to remind the Corinthians of the glories of heaven, saying that in exile here and in the tabernacle of the flesh he longs for them, and wish...
_God was in Christ. I.e_., as the Son by oneness of Essence. So Ambrose and Primasius. Hence S. Ambrose (_de Fide ad Gratian_, lib. iii. c. 5) says that God, _i.e._, everlasting Divinity, was in Chris...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 2 Corinthians 5:1.—Flow of _thought quite continuous_ from 2 Corinthians 4:18. _For_ (2 Corinthians 4:15).… _For_ (17).… _For_ ...
EXPOSITION Continuation of the topic that hope is the chief support of the preacher of the gospel (2 Corinthians 5:1). Their self-sacrifice in preaching the gospel of reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5:...
This time, let's turn in our Bibles to II Corinthians, chapter five. Paul talked about how he was constantly facing death for the cause of Jesus Christ. But though he was constantly facing death, vari...
1 John 2:1; 1 John 2:2; 1 John 4:10; 1 Timothy 3:16; 2 Corinthians 5:18
God. Emphatic. It was God, as in ver. 18. Was - reconciling [η ν κ α τ α λ λ α σ σ ω ν]. These words are to be construed together; the participle with the finite verb marking the process of reconcilia...
Namely — The sum of which is, God — The whole Godhead, but more eminently God the Father. Was in Christ, reconciling the world — Which was before at enmity with God. To himself — So taking away that e...
In these words the apostle gives us. short but full account of the grand doctrine of. sinner's reconciliation unto God by the death of Christ, which is the principal subject and substantial part of th...