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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...

twice in LXX Gen 49:26 and likewise twice in Philo.118 Neither offers a real parallel to Paul’s thought. As in LXX Gen 49:26, the sense of the expression is probably that of bounty or abundance, which comes across in the English translations. Yet Paul’s use of the term “blessing” (eu-logia) suggests that he understands bountiful giving as a “speech act,” a response to the address of the good Creator, a “speaking forth” of the spoken blessing that has been received.119 This reading correlates with
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