BUTLER'S COMMENTARY
Chapter Three
THE PROBLEM OF LEGALISM
(2 Corinthians 3:1-18)
IDEAS TO INVESTIGATE:
1.
Why is Paul bothered about letters of recommendation?
2.
How do people become letters of recommendation?
3.
If the old dispensation was so glorious Israel could not look on
Moses-' fac... [ Continue Reading ]
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS
_Self-commendation
Scripture_
2 Corinthians 3:1. Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? or
need we, as do some, epistles of commendation to you or from you?
_Comments_
Are we beginning again to commend ourselves.Paul had just written of
the glorious triumph of the mess... [ Continue Reading ]
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY
SECTION 1
It Dooms The Soul (2 Corinthians 3:1-6)
3 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some
do, letters of recommendation to you, or from you? 2You yourselves are
our letter of recommendation, written on your hearts, to be known and
read by all men;... [ Continue Reading ]
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS
_Scripture_
2 Corinthians 3:2-3. Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, known
and read of all men; 3 being made manifest that ye are an epistle of
Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of
the living God; not in tables of stone but in table tha... [ Continue Reading ]
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS
_Paul's Glorious Ministry Under the New Covenant
Scripture_
2 Corinthians 3:4-11. And such confidence have we through Christ to
God-ward: not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything
as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God; 6 who also made us
sufficie... [ Continue Reading ]
BUTLER'S COMMENTS
SECTION 2
It Diminishes God's Splendor (2 Corinthians 3:7-11)
7 Now if the dispensation of death, carved in letters on stone, came
with such splendor that the Israelites could not look at Moses-' face
because of its brightness, fading as this was, 8will not the
dispensation of t... [ Continue Reading ]
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS
_Paul's Great Boldness of Speech
Scripture_
2 Corinthians 3:12-13. Having therefore such a hope, we use great
boldness of speech, 13 and are not as Moses, who put a veil upon his
face, that the children of Israel should not look steadfastly on the
end of that which was passing... [ Continue Reading ]
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 Israelites might not see the end
of the fading splendor. 14But their minds were hardened; for to this
day,... [ Continue Reading ]
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS
_Hardened Minds
Scripture_
2 Corinthians 3:14-15. But their minds were hardened: for until this
very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remaineth,
it not being revealed to them that it is done away in Christ. 15 But
unto this day, whensoever Moses is read, a... [ Continue Reading ]
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, there is liberty. 18 But we all, with unveiled
face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lor... [ Continue Reading ]
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY
SECTION 4
Defense Against Legalism (2 Corinthians 3:18)
18And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are
being changed into his likeness from one degree of glory to another;
for this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
2 CORINTHIANS 3:18 TRANSFORMATION... [ Continue Reading ]