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— - ^[p. 407] The meaning is that, if Christ died for all, it was⁺ because all had died: otherwise there would have been no such need for Him to die. You need not go down into a pit where one will perish, if he is not there perishing. That it is not all died to sin is evident from the correspondency of “all” in the sentence; and further that “they which live” are taken as some out of the “all” in what follows. “He died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live,” etc. — oiJ zw’nte”, not zw’nte”. Hence he does not know even Christ after the flesh, as a living Jewish Messiah, whom as a Jew he would have known: “God was in Christ, reconciling the world. Nor does he know Christians as belonging to the old creation to which they had died, nor others, for they were all dead — their whole history. But if a man was in Christ, it was a new creation: he belonged to that in which all things were of God.