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2 Corinthians 5:20
Now, then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us; we pray you in Christ's stead, Be ye reconciled to God.
Now, then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us; we pray you in Christ's stead, Be ye reconciled to God.
Verse 20. _WE ARE AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST_] Ὑπερ Χριστου - πρεσβευομεν. We execute the function of ambassadors in Christ's stead. He came from the Father to mankind on this important embassy. He has l...
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 mes...
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...
2 Corinthians 5:20 to 2 Corinthians 6:10. Paul proceeds to expound and apply the relationship between himself and his converts based upon this ministry. He acts in Christ's stead when he beseeches men...
So then we are acting as ambassadors on Christ's behalf, for God is sending you his invitation through us. We beseech you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. He made him who had no acquaintance...
JOY AND JUDGMENT TO COME (2 Corinthians 5:1-10)...
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....
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...
_Now then we are ambassadors for Christ_ Literally, WE UNDERTAKE AN EMBASSY (_legatione fungimur_, Vulgate; _usen message_, Wiclif). Tyndale, followed by Cranmer and the Geneva Version, render, _are m...
ὙΠῈΡ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥ͂. First with emphasis. ON BEHALF OF CHRIST, THEREFORE, WE ARE ACTING AS AMBASSADORS, _as though God_ WERE INTREATING _by us_ (2 Corinthians 1:19; 2 Corinthians 9:11). Comp. for the constr...
20, 21. He sets forth his work as an ambassador from God. See Lightfoot’s _Ordination Addresses_, pp. 47 ff....
_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...
ΎΠΈΡ (G5228) от имени, представляя. Возможно, предлог передает также идею "вместо" (Hughes; _см._ 2 Corinthians 5:14). ΠΡΕΣΒΕΎΟΜΕΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΠΡΕΣΒΕΎΩ (G4243) быть послом, выполнять обязан...
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...
WE ARE AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST,— The Apostles were so in a peculiar sense; but if it be the will of Christ that ministers, in all ages, should press men to accept the treaty of reconciliation establish...
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...
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...
Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. FOR CHRIST ... IN CHRIST'S STEAD. The Greek of both is the same...
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...
5:20 were] (g-10) 'As of God beseeching;' 'as though,' or 'as if,' is too much similarity or comparison. God being in Christ, and they Christ's ambassadors, they besought on God's behalf. He was as be...
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...
BE YE RECONCILED TO GOD] It is not God who needs to be reconciled to man, but man who needs to be reconciled to God....
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....
NOW THEN WE ARE AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST — The preposition “for” implies the same representative character as in 2 Corinthians 5:14. The preachers of the Word were acting _on behalf of_ Christ; they wer...
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...
to 2 Corinthians 6:3. AS CHRIST'S AMBASSADOR HE ENTREATS THE CORINTHIANS TO BE RECONCILED TO GOD....
ὑπὲρ Χριστοῦ οὖν πρεσβεύομεν κ. τ. λ.: _we are ambassadors therefore, sc._, because to us has been committed the Ministry of Reconciliation, _on behalf of Christ_, as Christ's representative (see on 2...
AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST 2 Corinthians 5:20; 2 Corinthians 6:1 On God's side the work of reconciliation is complete. Everything has been done and is in readiness to make forgiveness and justifying righ...
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 20 As ambassador carries messages from the King. Because Christ's blood had cleansed him of sin, Paul carried the message of salvation to the world. As Christ's messenger, he pleaded with men to...
Be not deaf to this voice, harden not your hearts, suffer yourselves to be moved to the charity of God: it is immense, it is infinite. (Bible de Vence)...
Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us; we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. The Apostle hath very beautifully introduced this verse, in the mid...
20._As if God did beseech you _This is of no small importance for giving authority to the embassy: nay more, it is absolutely necessary, for who would rest upon the testimony of men, in reference to h...
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...
NOW THEN WE ARE AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST,.... Since God has made reconciliation by Christ, and the ministry of it is committed to us, we are ambassadors for him; we come with full powers from him, not t...
Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech _you_ by us: we pray _you_ in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. Ver. 20. _Ambassadors for Christ_] And therefore sacred person...
_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...
AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST; persons appointed to act in his stead....
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...
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...
The apostle here giveth us a true notion, not only of apostles, which were the first and principal ministers of the gospel, but of all other ministers; teaching us what all ministers should be, and wh...
We are ambassadors therefore on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beseech you on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God....
Origen Against Celsus Book VIII , and at the same time to unfold the truths of Christianity with such fulness as our purpose requires. And as Paul said, "We are ambassadors for Christ, as though God...
2 Corinthians 5:20 then G3767 ambassadors G4243 (G5719) for G5228 Christ G5547 though G5613 God G2316 pleading...
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...
‘We are ambassadors therefore on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we plead on behalf of Christ, be you reconciled to God.' ‘Therefore', because a way of reconciliation has been m...
2 Corinthians 5:20. WE ACE AMBASSADORS THEREFORE ON BEHALF OF CHRIST, AS THOUGH GOD WERE INTREATING BY US (as His mouth), WE BESEECH _YOU_ ON BEHALF OF CHRIST, BE YE RECONCILED TO GOD. Calvin would ex...
WE ARE AMBASSADORS THEREFORE ON BEHALF OF CHRIST (υπερ Χριστου ουν πρεσβευομεν). Old word from πρεσβυς, an old man, first to be an old man, then to be an ambassador (here and Ephesians 6:20 with εν...
2 Corinthians 5:20 The Gospel Embassy. If any man should ask what is the chief work of the Christian ministry, here is the answer: God has sent us; we are ambassadors for Christ. God has given us ou...
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...
AS THOUGH GOD HIMSELF. _Proxy_ probably would be a better word than _ambassador._ Paul (and every Christian) acts as a _proxy_ for God by trying to persuade others to let God change them from enemies...
_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...
_Now, then, we are ambassadors for Christ._ OF THE NATURE AND USE OF THE GOSPEL MINISTRY AS AN EXTERNAL MEAN OF APPLYING CHRIST First, Christ’s ambassadors commissionated. “Now, then, we are ambassad...
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...
_We pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God._ As Christ's ambassadors, even as if Christ were entreating you by us, we implore you to give up your wills to be reconciled to God. See what d...
_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 Corinthians 4:4; 1 Corinthians 4:5; 1 Thessalonians 4:8; 2 Chronicles 36:15;...
We are ambassadors [π ρ ε σ β ε υ ο μ ε ν]. Only here and Ephesians 6:10....
Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ — we beseech you in Christ's stead — Herein the apostle might appear to some "transported beyond himself." In general he uses a more calm, sedate kind of exhort...
Observe here, 1. The minister's office and employment declared: they ARE AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST; ambassadors from God to man, and as ambassadors they have their mission, their commission, from. great...