ACC ~ 2 Corinthians 5 v16a

WE SUSPECTED CHRIST WAS WEAK. AMBROSIASTER: Now that Christ has risen from the dead, birth according to the flesh loses its importance, bodily weakness ceases to count and the sufferings of death no longer matter either. Right up until the cross there was a suspicion that Christ was weak, but once he rose from the dead all that vanished and what was previously doubted came to be believed. COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

A HUMAN POINT OF VIEW. CHRYSOSTOM: Even if believers are still in their earthly bodies, we do not relate to them in that way, because the life according to the flesh has been transcended. We have been born again by the Spirit and have learned a different kind of behavior, which is that of heaven. It is Christ who has brought about this change. There was a time when we knew him in his earthly life, but now we know him in the perfection of his resurrection. HOMILIES ON THE EPISTLES OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 11.3.

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