ACC ~ 2 Corinthians 5 v20

DEVOTION AND BELIEF. AMBROSIASTER: Paul wants to show both his devotion to God’s providence and his belief that it is his duty to love the whole human race. COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

BE RECONCILED. PELAGIUS: We are reconciled to God if we believe in Christ. COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 5.

AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST. CHRYSOSTOM: The apostles are ambassadors for Christ because they have succeeded to his ministry. And not only his, for they represent the Father as well. HOMILIES ON THE EPISTLES OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 11.5.

THE SIGN OF THE NEW LIFE. AUGUSTINE: He says, “He [Christ] who knew no sin, he [God] made to be sin for us.” The God to whom we are to be reconciled has thus made him the sacrifice for sin by which we may be reconciled. He himself is therefore sin as we ourselves are righteousness—not our own but God’s, not in ourselves but in him. Just as he was sin—not his own but ours, rooted not in himself but in us—so he showed forth through the likeness of sinful flesh, in which he was crucified, that since sin was not in him he could then, so to say, die to sin by dying in the flesh, which was “the likeness of sin.” And since he had never lived in the old manner of sinning, he might, in his resurrection, signify the new life which is ours, which is springing to life anew from the old death in which we had been dead to sin. ENCHIRIDION 13.41.

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