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God is the Initiator
Commentators unanimously stress that reconciliation is entirely God's initiative. The verse shows that God, the offended party, did not wait for humanity to seek Him. Instead, out of love, He designed and executed the plan to restore the broken relationship through Christ. As scholar Albert Barnes notes, the change happens in us, not in God's fundamental character.
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2 Corinthians
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Albert Barnes
On 2 Corinthians 5:18
18th Century
Theologian
And all things are of God (2 Corinthians 5:18). This refers particularly to the matters in question: the renewing of the heart…
AT Robertson
On 2 Corinthians 5:18
Who reconciled us to himself through Christ (του καταλλαξαντος ημας εαυτω δια Χριστου). Here Paul uses one of his great doctrinal …
Charles Ellicott
On 2 Corinthians 5:18
19th Century
Bishop
And all things are of God.—The presence of the article in the Greek indicates that he is speaking, not of the universe at…
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Charles Spurgeon
On 2 Corinthians 5:17–19
19th Century
Preacher
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away: behold, all things are become new. And all things are of G…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 2 Corinthians 5:18
“All this is from God” looks back to the new attitudes of v.16 and the new creation of v.17. God is as surely the author of the second creation as …
John Calvin
On 2 Corinthians 5:18
16th Century
Theologian
All things are of God. He means, all things that belong to Christ’s kingdom. “If we would be Christ’s, we must be regenerated by God. Now …
John Gill
On 2 Corinthians 5:18
17th Century
Pastor
And all things are of God
A man's being brought into a Gospel church state is of God; the causing all old things to …
Matthew Henry
On 2 Corinthians 5:16–21
17th Century
Minister
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 se…