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2Co_5:11-21. Since we thus fear Christ, we persuade men, but we are manifest to God, and, it is to be hoped, also to you (2Co_5:11), by which we nevertheless do not wish to praise ourselves, but to give you occasion to boast of us against our opponents (2Co_5:12). For for this you have cause, whether we may be now mad (as our opponents say) or in possession of reason (2Co_5:13). Proof of the latter (2Co_5:14-15), from which Paul then infers that he no longer knows any one after the flesh, as formerly, when he had so known Christ, and that hence the Christian is a new creature (2Co_5:16-17). And this new creation is the work of God (2Co_5:18-19), whence results the exalted standpoint of the apostolic preaching, which proclaims reconciliation (2Co_5:20-21).