Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Corinthians 5:20

20 Now then we are ambassadours for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christs stead, Be ye reconciled to God .

The Apostle here giveth us a true Notion, not only of Apostles, which were the first and principal Ministers of the Gospel, but of all other Ministers; teaching us what all Ministers should be, and what all true Ministers of the Gospel are. They are Ambassadours for Christ; there is by Nature an enmity betwixt the Creature and God; he naturally hateth God, and God is angry with him. Those that were sometimes alienated, and Enemies in their minds by wicked works, Christ hath reconciled in the body of his flesh through death,. Col. 1.21, 22. He hath purchased a reconciliation for them. But yet, till they have received Christ, as their Lord and Saviour, they are not actually recovered to God by him. God does by men, as great Princes do by such as they are at Enmity with; he sends his Ministers to them, who are his Ambassadours; and as all Ambassadours represent the Person of him whose Ambassadours they are, and speak in his name, and as in his stead, perswading to peace; so these speak as in Christ's name, and in God's stead; their business is to beseech men to be reconciled unto God, to lay down their Arms, and to accept of the terms of the Gospel for peace and reconciliation.

Marginal references: Job 33.23. Mal. 2.7. Chap. 3.6.