“What Paul has said is sane from his hearers' point of view, as long as it is understood in the sense in which it was uttered, but if it is thought to have been spoken out of boastfulness, it is insane. For all pride is a kind of insanity.”
Ambrosiaster, 4th c. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
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13For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.
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11Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.
12For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance, and not in heart.
— 2 Corinthians 5:13 —
14For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
15And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.