2 CORINTHIANS 5:16 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.”
So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer — kata sarka (according to flesh/worldly standards) is the old way of evaluating people. Even Paul's former assessment of Christ was inadequate before Damascus. The resurrection transforms all judgments.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 5:16
“Wherefore we henceforth know no man after the flesh.” For if all died and all rose again; and in such sort died as the tyranny of sin condemned them; but rose again “through the laver of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Ghost;” Titus 3:5 he says with reason, “we know none” of the faithful “after the flesh.” For what if even they be in the flesh? Yet is that fleshly life destroyed, and we are born again by the Spirit, and have learned another deportment and rule and…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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