The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ
These words are in the form of an oath, and are a solemn appeal
to God, that knows all things, for the truth of the whole that he
had declared in the foregoing verses, and of the remarkable
deliverance related in the following. "God", says he, who is the
searcher of hearts, and an omniscient being, to whom all things
are open and manifest,
knoweth that I lie not;
in anyone single instance he had mentioned, nor in what he was
about to declare; which because it was a fact done by a
stratagem, and a good while ago, and which was not known to the
Corinthians, and of which perhaps at that time he could not
produce any witnesses; therefore calls God to testify the truth
of it, whom he describes as "the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ"; God is his "God" as Mediator, and head of the elect, to
whom as to them he is a covenant God; and as man, being his
Creator, supporter, and the object of his faith, hope, love, and
worship; and his "Father" as God, and the Son of God, by
supernatural generation, being the only begotten of him, in a way
ineffable and inexpressible: "and who is blessed for evermore";
in himself, and Son, and Spirit, and is the source of all
happiness to his creatures.
