2 Corinthians 5:15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not from now on live to themselves, but to him which died for them… 1. Self is the chief end of every natural man. "That they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves" — implying that all men living, who are not under the actual benefit and efficacy of our Saviour's death, do live to themselves. 2. The end of our Saviour's dying and rising again was to change the corrupt end of the creature. 3. Therefore we must be taken off from ourselves as our end, and be fixed upon another, even upon Christ, else we answer not the end of Christ's death and resurrection. 4. It is highly equitable that, if Christ died for us and was raised for us as our happiness, we should live to His glory, and make Him our end in all our actions and the whole course of our lives. The apostle uses this consideration as an argument, and as a copy and exemplar. Therefore, as He rose to justify us, we must rise to glorify Him. (Bp. Hackett.) Parallel Verses KJV: And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again. |
    |