When it — Their heart. Shall turn to the Lord — To Christ, by living faith. The veil is taken away — That very moment; and they see, with the utmost clearness, how all the types and prophecies of the law are fully accomplished in him.
Verse 16. _WHEN IT SHALL TURN TO THE LORD_] When the Israelitish _nation_ shall turn to the LORD _Jesus_, the veil shall be taken away; the true light shall shine; and they shall see all things clearl...
NEVERTHELESS - This is not always to continue. The time is coming when they shall understand their own Scriptures, and see their true beauty. WHEN IT SHALL TURN TO THE LORD - When the Jewish people sh...
4. THE MINISTRY OF THE NEW COVENANT IN CONTRAST WITH THE OLD. CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The Epistle of Christ. (2 Corinthians 3:1)_ 2. The True Sufficiency. (2 Corinthians 3:4) 3. The Old and New Ministry Con...
This opens the way for a comparison between the ministry under the one covenant and the ministry under the other. The former, even though its issue was historically failure, condemnation, and death, a...
EACH MAN A LETTER OF CHRIST (2 Corinthians 3:1-3)...
It is because we possess such a hope that we speak with such freedom. We do not draw a veil over things, as Moses did over his face so that the children of Israel should not gaze at the end of the glo...
IT. i.e. the heart of Israel. TURN. Greek. _epistrepho._ Often translated "return", or be converted". See Matthew 13:15.John 12:40; Acts 3:19; Ac
_when it shall turn to the Lord_ The A. V. makes (1) _Israel's heart_the nominative to the verb in this sentence. Wiclif and the other Protestant translators (2) make _Israel itself_the nominative, wh...
The Ministration of the Spirit superior to that of the Law 7. _But if the ministration of death_ He does not say -which causeth," but -the ministration of death," for that which _caused_death was sin...
ἩΝΊΚΑ ΔῈ ἘΆΝ. BUT WHENSOEVER IT _shall turn to the Lord_. The nominative is ἡ καρδία αὐτῶν, or possibly τις: ‘whensoever a man.’ The ἡνίκα here balances ἡνίκα in 2 Corinthians 3:15 : whenever they hea...
12–18. This overwhelming superiority of the Gospel inspires its ministers with great boldness. An Apostle has no need to veil the glory which he has received, for there is no fear of its being seen to...
_CHANGED INTO THE SAME IMAGE 2 CORINTHIANS 3:16-18:_ The veil that Paul spoke of was taken away from the hearts of those that turned to Christ. During the early days of Christianity many of the Jews f...
ΈΠΙΣΤΡΈΨΗ _aor. conj. pass. от_ ΈΠΙΣΤΡΈΦΩ (G1994) поворачивать; _med._ и _pass._ оборачиваться. Предложное сочетание имеет директивное значение: "обращаться к кому-л. или чему-л.". Это слово дает граф...
DISCOURSE: 2010 THE FUTURE CONVERSION OF THE JEWS 2 Corinthians 3:15. _Even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart. Nevertheless, when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shal...
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 3 It Divests People of Freedom (2 Corinthians 3:12-17) 12 Since we have such a hope, we are very bold, 13not like Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the Israelit...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Transformed Scripture_ 2 Corinthians 3:16-18. But whensoever it shall turn to the Lord the veil is taken away. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is...
But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ. Parenthetical: of Christians in general...
6 The covenant of the letter is the law of Moses which was engraven in stone, to symbolize its unyielding sternness. There is no reference to the letter of Scripture. It is the law that kills, just as...
3:16 away.) (d-13) The parenthesis begins at ver. 7....
PARAPHRASE. 'Since our hopes of the future of the gospel are so great, we speak frankly and boldly. (13) We do not seek to conceal anything as Moses concealed his face with a veil lest the people shou...
IT] i.e. their heart. The Law is incomprehensible without Christ....
This chapter is closely connected with what goes before, and carries on the vindication of the Apostle's conduct....
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 3 V1 But we are not trying to recommend ourselves. And we do not need letters to recommend us, like some people. V2 You a...
NEVERTHELESS WHEN IT SHALL TURN TO THE LORD. — Better, _But when it shall turn._ The allegorising process is still carried on. Moses removed the veil when he went into the tabernacle to commune with t...
CHAPTER 10 THE TRANSFIGURING SPIRIT 2 Corinthians 3:12 (R.V) THE "hope" which here explains the Apostle's freedom of speech is to all intents and purposes the same as the "confidence" in 2 Corinthia...
ἡνίκα δʼ ἄν κ. τ. λ.: _but whensoever it, i.e._, Israel, _shall turn to the Lord, the veil is taken away_; a paraphrase of Exodus 34:34, ἡνίκα δʼ ἄν εἰσεπορεύετο Μωσῆς ἔναντι Κυρίου λαλεῖν αὐτῷ, περιῃ...
THE MINISTRY OF THE NEW COVENANT IS (_b_) OPEN, NOT VEILED, AS WAS THAT OF THE OLD. The illustration from the O.T. which is used in these verses has been obscured for English readers by the faulty ren...
THE VEIL UPON THE HEART 2 Corinthians 3:7 By a quick turn of thought, Paul passes from the idea of the fleshly tablets of the heart, where God writes His new name, to the Law graven on the ancient ta...
The apostle declared that the Church is the supreme credential of the power of the ministry. The Corinthian Christians are "known and read of all men." This, however, was not the deepest truth. They w...
SEEING CHRIST'S GLORY WITH THE VEIL REMOVED Just as Moses used a veil to cover the glory shining on his face (Exodus 34:33), so he used types and shadows to cover the glory of the Lord. Christians can...
(7) But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; whic...
16._But when he shall have turned to the Lord. _This passage has hitherto been badly rendered, for both Greek and Latin writers have thought that the word Israel was to be understood, whereas Paul is...
These words give rise to an exposition of the gospel in contrast with the law, which the false teachers mixed up with the gospel. He gives this exposition with the most touching appeal to the heart of...
NEVERTHELESS, WHEN IT SHALL TURN TO THE LORD,.... The heart, upon which the veil now is; or the body of the Jewish nation, as in the latter day; when they "shall turn", or "be turned", by the Spirit,...
Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away. Ver. 16. _When it shall turn_] Of the Jews' conversion, and what hinders it. _See Trapp on "_ Rom 11:7 _"_ _See Trapp on "_...
2 Cor. 3:16. "Nevertheless, when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away." That is, their heart (shall turn to the Lord - the veil shall be taken away), in allusion to Moses taking off...
_Seeing then_ Upon these grounds spoken of from 2 Corinthians 3:5; _that we have such hope_ Such confidence of the excellence of our ministry, or such an assurance that the gospel excels the law in it...
IT; the heart of the Jewish people. TURN TO THE LORD; embrace Jesus Christ as the Messiah. THE VEIL SHALL BE TAKEN AWAY; they shall understand the meaning of the Old Testament scriptures, and see the...
The effect of the two ministries:...
NEVERTHELESS, WHEN IT SHALL TURN TO THE LORD, THE VEIL SHALL BE TAKEN AWAY....
Did the Corinthians assume that Paul was merely commending himself or defending himself in penning the last verse of chapter 2? It was not so; but necessity demanded that they should recognize that he...
12-18 It is the duty of the ministers of the gospel to use great plainness, or clearness, of speech. The Old Testament believers had only cloudy and passing glimpses of that glorious Saviour, and unb...
WHEN IT SHALL TURN, may be understood of the whole, or of the generality (at least) of the Jews; when they shall be converted to the faith of Christ, or when any particular person shall be converted t...
But whensoever it shall turn to the Lord, the veil is taken away. [The word "end" in 2 Corinthians 3:13 is the bone of contention in this passage. It has two meanings: (1) The termination or stopping-...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V e predictions of Moses relating to Christ, in whom it was their duty to believe through him, are as yet unfulfilled? What had the apostle of a strange Christ to compl...
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‘But whenever it shall turn to the Lord, the veil is taken away.' Here we have to interpret ‘it'. So, it could mean ‘but whenever the heart (referring back to 2 Corinthians 3:15) of a man turns to the...
2 Corinthians 3:16. BUT WHENSOEVER IT (_i.e._ their heart) SHALL TURN TO THE LORD to the Lord _Christ_ THE VEIL IS TAKEN AWAY the present tense, here used, signifying that it vanishes at once on their...
IT SHALL TURN (επιστρεψε). The heart of Israel.THE VEIL IS TAKEN AWAY (περιαιρειτα το καλυμμα). Present passive indicative of περιαιρεω, old verb, to take from around, as of anchors (Acts 27:40),...
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....
CONTENTS: The ministry of Christ accredited. Its spiritual and glorious character. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul, Moses. CONCLUSION: True ministers are Christ's instruments, for He is th...
2 Corinthians 3:1. _Do we begin again to commend ourselves?_ A happy mode of recovery, as though he had slidden unawares into self-applause, when contrasting his ministry with that of false teachers....
BUT IT IS REMOVED. Paul paraphrases Exodus 34:34 and uses it to show that when they go into the presence of God IN FACT, this veil will be removed! Compare Romans 11:23-26 and notes. _When_ the Jews b...
_Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech _ THE DUTY OF OUTSPOKENNESS ON RELIGIOUS QUESTIONS True religion is very simple and very deep. A s simple as this statement, “Go...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 3:12 If Paul’s ministry announces life, not death, then why are the majority of the Jews in Paul’s day still rejecting it? Does Israel’s rejection of Paul’s message...
CHAPTER III. SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. Paul asserts that he does not seek or need the praise of men, as the Judaising false apostles sought it: the fruit of his preaching is, he says, sufficient co...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ N.B. A _continuous outpour_ of argument and appeal, all “alive,” and quivering, thrilling, with quick emotion, _from_ 2 Corinthians 2:17 _to_ 2 Corinthians 6:10. 2
EXPOSITION Defence against the charge of self-recommendation, which St. Paul does not need (2 Corinthians 3:1). His sufficiency comes from God (2 Corinthians 3:4), who has made him minister of a coven...
Shall we turn tonight to the third chapter of II Corinthians. Paul the apostle, it seemed, had the detractors to his ministry, men that followed him around seeking to discredit him. There are always t...
Deuteronomy 30:10; Deuteronomy 4:30; Exodus 34:34; Hosea 3:4; Hosea 3:5
It shall turn. The heart of Israel. Shall be taken away [π ε ρ ι α ι ρ ε ι τ α ι]. Rev., correctly, is taken away. The verb occurs twice in Acts (xxvii. 20, 40) of the taking away of hope, and of the...