Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us; we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
The Apostle hath very beautifully introduced this verse, in the midst of those high truths he was delivering to the Church, as if his mind was suddenly constrained to make appeal, from what he had said before, to the Church of God, in that place. He takes up the idea of an Ambassador, sent not with an earthly commission, but with an heavenly, to entreat poor sinners to a reconciliation with God in Christ. And what endears the message still more is, that the overture first comes from the offended party. By the fall, it is our nature that is in a state of enmity and warfare with God. So that, what grace must it be in God, not only to provide a remedy, for repairing the dreadful breach of sin, but also to woo the sinner's heart, to accept the offered mercy. Reader! do not overlook in this view, the provision made, for acceptation, in every instance, of the Church of Jesus, Psalms 110:3; John 6:37.