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Professor Joh. P. Meyer’s commentary on Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians, Ministers of Christ, was first published in 1963 as part of the centennial celebration observance of Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, where Meyer taught for 44 years. Almost fifty years later, another professor of Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary and student of Meyer, Armin J. Panning, was asked to update the commentary by...

someone is in the highest sense benefiting him. In many passages both the general and the particular meaning would make good sense. Then it will be impossible to determine with certainty whether substitution was in the mind of the writer. However, since the evidence indicates that the development was strong in the direction of the particular meaning of “substitution,” we dare not be too hesitant about reading the word in that sense. There is one passage in the New Testament, Philemon 13, where the
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