All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;
18. 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 that is no ordinary gift.” He does not, therefore, speak here of creation generally; but of the grace of regeneration, which God confers peculiarly upon his elect, and he affirms that it is of God — not on...
We must regard no person for carnal ends or outward gain; the world must be under our feet. Even those who saw Christ in the flesh should not dote upon that bodily presence, we live by His spiritual presence, not by images or fleshly remembrance of Him.
AI summary
Commenting on 2 Corinthians 5:16-21
To wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself,.... This expresses and explains the subject matter of the ministration of the Gospel, especially that part of it which concerns our reconciliation with God; and declares the scheme, the author, the subjects, the way, and means, and consequence of it.