CHAPTER 13
THE CHRISTIAN HOPE.
2 Corinthians 5:1 (R.V)
THAT outlook on the future, which at the close of 2 Corinthians 4:1.
is presented in the most general terms, is here carried out by the
Apostle into more definite detail. The passage is one of the most
difficult in his writings, and has recei... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER 14
THE MEASURE OF CHRIST'S LOVE.
2 Corinthians 5:11 (R.V)
THE Christian hope of immortality is elevated and solemnized by the
thought of the judgment-seat of Christ. This is no strange thought to
St. Paul; many a time he has set himself in imagination in that great
presence, and let the aw... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER 15
THE NEW WORLD.
2 Corinthians 5:16 (R.V)
THE inferences which are here drawn depend upon what has just been
said of Christ's death for all, and the death of all in that death of
His. In that death, as inclusive of ours, the old life died, and with
it died all its distinctions. All that m... [ Continue Reading ]
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 same Author as the original one: it is all of God, who reconciled
us to Himself by Jesus Christ, and g... [ Continue Reading ]