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God is the Initiator
Commentators unanimously highlight that God, the offended party, initiated reconciliation. The verse shows God actively working 'in Christ' to restore the relationship with a world alienated from Him. This demonstrates the depth of His love, as He, in the words of one scholar, 'sought that the world should be reconciled' when humanity had no plan or desire for it.
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2 Corinthians
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Albert Barnes
On 2 Corinthians 5:19
18th Century
Theologian
To wit (Greek, wv oti), namely. This verse is designed further to state the nature of the plan of reconciliation and of …
AT Robertson
On 2 Corinthians 5:19
To wit, that (ως οτ). Latin puts it quoniam quidem. It is an unclassical idiom, but occurs in the papyri and inscriptions (…
Charles Ellicott
On 2 Corinthians 5:19
19th Century
Bishop
To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world.—Better, perhaps, that it was God who was reconciling in Christ…
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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 5:19
“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 5:19
16th Century
Theologian
God was in Christ. Some take this as meaning simply — God reconciled the world to himself in Christ; but the meaning is fuller an…
John Gill
On 2 Corinthians 5:19
17th Century
Pastor
To wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to
himself
This expresses and …
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…