<p>1:20 <i>For no matter how many and whatever be the promises of God, in him is the ultimate Yes- </i>We know that the promises to the Jewish fathers were confirmed by the death of the Lord; and yet &ldquo;all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen&quot; (2 Cor. 1:20). &ldquo;In him&quot; is put for &lsquo;on account of His death which confirmed them&rsquo;. &lsquo;He&rsquo; was His death and His cross. In the preceding verse, Paul has spoken of &ldquo;Christ crucified&quot;. He was brought to the cross a man who had already died unto sin; and the very quick time in which He died reflected how physically worn out His body was, in reflection of how sin had virtually already been put to death in Him.</p><p><i>Therefore also through him is the Amen, to the glory of God through us- </i>The connection between the atonement and faith in prayer is brought out in 2 Cor. 1:20 RSV: &ldquo;For all the promises of God in him are yea. That is, we utter the Amen through him&quot;. The promises of God were confirmed through the Lord&rsquo;s death, and the fact that He died as the seed of Abraham, having taken upon Him Abraham&rsquo;s plural seed in representation (Rom. 15:8,9). Because of this, &ldquo;we utter the Amen through on account of being in Him&quot;. We can heartily say &lsquo;Amen&rsquo;, so be it, to our prayers on account of our faith and understanding of His confirmation of God's promises. But why this laboured aside about the utter certainty of God's promises, because they have been confirmed in Christ? It is in the context of Paul urging that <i>his</i> promises are to be taken seriously and that he is not unstable or fickle. If he- and we- have had such experiences of God's word of promise made even more sure, then one outflow of this will be in behaviour which is likewise solid and not fickle, changed at the last moment because of our own whims.</p>