Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
2 Corinthians 3:9
Ministration of righteousness] better, 'of acquittal,' in contrast to 'of condemnation.' The gospel message is one of pardon and reconciliation.
Ministration of righteousness] better, 'of acquittal,' in contrast to 'of condemnation.' The gospel message is one of pardon and reconciliation.
2 CORINTHIANS 3:9 th|/ diakoni,a| {B} A majority of the Committee, impressed by the weight of the external evidence supporting th|/ diakoni,a|, was inclined to regard the nominative as due to scriba...
Verse 2 Corinthians 3:9. _THE MINISTRATION OF CONDEMNATION_] The _law_, which ascertained sin, and condemned it to just punishment. _THE MINISTRATION OF RIGHTEOUSNESS_] The Gospel, the grand busines...
FOR IF THE MINISTRATION OF CONDEMNATION - Of Moses in giving the Law, the effect of which is to produce condemnation. Law condemns the guilty; it does not save them. It denounces punishment; it contai...
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)...
We can believe this with such confidence because we believe it through Christ and in the sight of God. It is not that in our own resources we are adequate to reckon up the effect of anything that we h...
CONDEMNATION. Greek. _katakrisis._ Only here and 2 Corinthians 7:3. See App-122. RIGHTEOUSNESS. Gs. _dikaiosune._ App-191....
_For if the ministration of condemnation be glory Dampnacioun_, Wiclif, and similarly the Rhemish version. The law must be understood to be a ministry of condemnation, "not in itself and in its own na...
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...
Ἡ ΔΙΑΚΟΝΊΑ (BD2KLP, f Copt. Goth., Chrys.) rather than τῇ διακονίᾳ (אACDFG, d am Syrr. Aeth), but doubtfully; and ΔΌΞΗΙ (אABC) rather than ἐν δόξῃ (א3DFGKLP, Vulg. Arm.). The ἐν may come from 2 Corint...
7–11. The inferiority of the Law to the Gospel is set forth in a detailed argument directed against the Judaizers: ὅρα πῶς πάλιν ὑποτέμνεται τὸ φρόνημα τὸ Ἰουδαικόν (Chrysostom)....
_MINISTERS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT 2 CORINTHIANS 3:6-11:_ Paul was made an able minister of the New Testament. The term "Testament" refers to a covenant or an agreement. "New" has reference to being made...
ΚΑΤΆΚΡΙΣΙΣ (G2633) осуждение, суждение против кого-л. ΠΕΡΙΣΣΕΎΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΠΕΡΙΣΣΕΎΩ (G4052) изобиловать, с последующим _dat._, указывает на область, в которой наблюдается изобилие....
DISCOURSE: 2009 THE GLORY OF THE GOSPEL ABOVE THAT OF THE LAW 2 Corinthians 3:7. If the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not st...
MINISTRATION OF RIGHTEOUSNESS— Or, of _justification._ So the ministry of the gospel is called, because by the gospel a way is provided for the justification of those who have transgressed. But the la...
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...
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,...
For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. MINISTRATION OF CONDEMNATION - the law regarded in the "letter" which "killeth" ...
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...
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...
IF THE MINISTRATION OF CONDEMNATION BE GLORY... — Many of the better MSS. give the reading, _if there be glory to the ministry of condemnation._ The latter phrase takes the place here of “the ministry...
CHAPTER 9 THE TWO COVENANTS. 2 Corinthians 3:4 (R.V) THE confidence referred to in the opening of this passage is that which underlies the triumphant Sentences at the end of the second chapter. The...
πῶς οὐχὶ μᾶλλον κ. τ. λ.: _how shall not rather the Ministration of the Spirit be with glory? For if the Ministration of Condemnation be glory_ (if we read τῇ διακονίᾳ we must render, with the America...
DIGRESSION ON THE MINISTRY OF THE NEW COVENANT. IT IS (_a_) MORE GLORIOUS THAN THAT OF THE OLD....
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...
THE GREATER GLORY OF THE NEW COVENANT The law of Moses was written in stone and condemned men to die since they were not perfect. Yet, Moses, as a minister of that covenant, was glorified to the point...
For if the ministration of condemnation [be] glory, much more doth the ministration of (k) righteousness exceed in glory. (k) That is, of Christ. And since he is imputed to us as our own, we are not...
(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...
_LAW AND GOSPEL COMPARED_ ‘But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, … much more that which remaineth is glorious.’ 2 Corinthians 3:7 In these verses we have a...
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...
FOR IF THE MINISTRATION OF CONDEMNATION BE GLORY,.... So the Jews call the law, for they say, אין כבוד אלא תורה, "there is no glory but the law" f; this is another head of opposition or difference bet...
For if the ministration of condemnation _be_ glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. Ver. 9. _Exceed in glory_] A throne was set in heaven, Revelation 4:2; not in the...
_If_, &c. The apostle now proceeds to the second particular; _the ministration of condemnation be glorious_ Attended with such great glory. The law, whether moral or ceremonial, however glorious, was,...
RIGHTEOUSNESS; here the righteousness which God gives through faith in Christ, bringing to the soul justification instead of condemnation....
The glory of the ministry of righteousness:...
FOR IF THE MINISTRATION OF CONDEMNATION BE GLORY, MUCH MORE DOTH THE MINISTRATION OF RIGHTEOUSNESS EXCEED IN GLORY....
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...
1-11 Even the appearance of self-praise and courting human applause, is painful to the humble and spiritual mind. Nothing is more delightful to faithful ministers, or more to their praise, than the s...
What the apostle before called _the ministration of death, _ he here calleth THE MINISTRATION OF CONDEMNATION; and therin gives us a reason why he called it the ministration of death, because it led u...
For if the ministration of condemnation hath glory, much rather doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory....
2 Corinthians 3:9 For G1063 if G1487 ministry G1248 condemnation G2633 glory G1391 ministry G1248 righteousness G1343 exceeds...
‘For if the ministration of condemnation has glory, much rather does the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.' He compares the two covenants. The one administered condemnation. It pointed ma...
2 Corinthians 3:9. FOR IF THE MINISTRATION OF CONDEMNATION IS GLORY the law is glorious, even though in our case its effect is condemnation, MUCH RATHER DOTH THE MINISTRATION OF RIGHTEOUSNESS EXCEED I...
OF CONDEMNATION (της κατακρισεως). Genitive, that brings condemnation because unable to obey the law.IS GLORY (δοξα). No copula, but makes the figure bolder. Paul freely admits the glory for the...
RIGHTEOUSNESS (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:21). _...
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....
ARE CONDEMNED. Paul repeats what he has just said, but contrasts _are condemned_ (by the old covenant) with _declared innocent_ (by the new covenant). DIKAIOSUNE = _declared innocent_ is a legal term,...
_For if the ministration of condemnation be glory._ CONDEMNATION AND RIGHTEOUSNESS here replace death and life, because it is through condemnation that man becomes the prey of death; and the grace wh...
_But if the ministration of death … was glorious _ THE PECULIAR GLORY OF THE GOSPEL I. That contrasted with the law as “the ministration of condemnation” the gospel is the “ministration of righteousn...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 3:7 Moses’ ministry is described as a MINISTRY OF DEATH because Israel would not obey the law (see Exodus 32:9;...
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...
1 Corinthians 1:30; 1 Corinthians 15:41; 2 Corinthians 3:10; 2 Corinthians 3:11;...
Ministration of condemnation. Because Moses was the minister of the law. For the relation of the law to sin and condemnation, see Romans 5:20; Romans 7:7-13....
The ministration of condemnation — Such the Mosaic dispensation proved to all the Jews who rejected the gospel whereas through the gospel (hence called the ministration of righteousness) God both impu...
Did Moses wear a veil when speaking to the people or not? PROBLEM: Exodus 34:33 (KJV) asserts that, “Till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail [sic] on his face” (cf. v. 35). This implies...
Observe here, 1. The different titles given to the law, and to the gospel; the former is called THE MINISTRATION OF CONDEMNATION, because it condemns men eternally for the violation of it; the latter...