2 Corinthians 3:1 I. There is a peculiar writing on the tablet of the Christian's soul. The old covenant, with its precepts and penalties, was engraven upon slabs of stone; but the new covenant, with its gospel and its commandments, is written upon the sensitive and everlasting tablet of the heart.... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 3:2 The Two Ministrations the Law and the Gospel. I. There is perhaps something that, on the first mention, jars with our feelings in the fact that it was with a perfect knowledge that man could not obey the law, that the Almighty placed him under the law as a covenant. Yet in truth,... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 3:4 The Divine Sufficiency. I. Here we have a conception of the Christian ministry what it is in its range, in its demands, in its difficulties, and in its trust upon God. The first work is unquestionably that of a preacher of the gospel. It is one message from heaven, a message of l... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 3:6 Practical Use of the New Testament. I. The New Testament is the revelation of eternal life by Christ; of life which must begin in man's spirit by the conviction of sin, must be entered on by justifying faith, and carried on by the sanctifying power of the Holy Ghost. It comes to u... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 3:8 The Ministry of the Spirit. I. First among the proofs of Christianity comes the indisputable product of the "ministration of the Spirit," the new society of believers in Christ Jesus, the new world of redeemed and regenerate sons, created and held in its true spiritual orbit by t... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 3:12 Mirrors of Christ. I. Note first what St. Paul means when he speaks of why Moses put the veil upon his face. You think it was because it was too bright that he did so. Not at all. When his face is shining with most radiance, then it is that he bares it before the assembled multit... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 3:17 Spiritual Liberty. These words form the climax of the argument contained in the whole of the chapter. Through the chapter Paul puts law and gospel side by side. He shows us that there was a glory attached to the legal dispensation, but that the glory of the gospel far exceeds it... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 3:18 The Intuition of Faith. St. Paul says that we, as members of Christ, behold the manifold glory of God as in a glass, as if it were a direct object of sight, and that by beholding it we are changed. It has an assimilating power, and that which makes us capable of its transforming... [ Continue Reading ]