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The question that Paul set before the ancient church in Corinth—Do you not recognize that Jesus Christ is in and among you? (2 Cor 13:5)—remains a critical question for the church today. This commentary by Mark Seifrid seeks to hear Paul’s message afresh and communicate it to our time. Seifrid offers a unified reading of 2 Corinthians, which has often been regarded as a composite of excerpts and...

18 Paul already participates in the coming glory and already is renewed through the vision of faith: “while we look not upon the things that are seen, but on the things that are unseen.” He thus draws a fundamental contrast between human perception (that sees only matters that can be estimated, calculated, and brought under human control) and God’s work in Jesus. Only those who have been liberated from “the god of this age” by the work of the Creator in Christ have eyes to see the unseen. The “word
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