Geneva Study Bible Commentary
2 Corinthians 3:8
How shall not the (i) ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
(i) By which God offers, indeed, and gives the Spirit, not as a dead thing, but a living Spirit, working life.
How shall not the (i) ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
(i) By which God offers, indeed, and gives the Spirit, not as a dead thing, but a living Spirit, working life.
Verse 2 Corinthians 3:8. _THE MINISTRATION OF THE SPIRIT_] The Gospel dispensation, which gives the true spiritual sense of the law. _BE RATHER GLORIOUS?_] Forasmuch as the thing signified is of inf...
HOW SHALL NOT THE MINISTRATION OF THE SPIRIT - This is an argument from the less to the greater. Several things in it are worthy of notice: (1) The proper contrast to the “ministration of death” 2 Cor...
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...
NOT. Greek. _ouchi._ App-105....
_How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious_?] Literally, _how shall not the ministration of the spirit rather_ BE IN GLORY, i.e. if the brightness which was actually fading was s...
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...
ΠΩ͂Σ ΟΥ̓ΧῚ ΜΑ͂ΛΛΟΝ … ἜΣΤΑΙ ἘΝ ΔΌΞΗΙ. _How shall not_ (Romans 8:32) RATHER (1 Corinthians 12:22) _the ministration of the spirit be_ WITH GLORY. The change from ἐγενήθη to ἔσται marks the difference be...
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...
ΜΆΛΛΟΝ (G3123) скорее, более. Вводит завершение обсуждения темы, начатое в ст. 7. ΈΣΤΑΙ _fut. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быть. Логический, а не хронологический FUT. (Barrett)....
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...
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,...
How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? SHALL ... BE - i:e., shall be found in part now; fully, when the glory of Christ and His saints shall be revealed. RATHER GLORIOU...
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...
This chapter is closely connected with what goes before, and carries on the vindication of the Apostle's conduct....
PARAPHRASE. 'Now if the system which could only declare the sentence of death upon sin was glorious (and glorious it was, for at its giving the very face of Moses was transfigured), (8) the system whi...
RATHER GLORIOUS] The Gospel was more glorious than the Law because it was a message of forgiveness and not of condemnation, and because it was not a mere legal system, but an inspiring summons....
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...
HOW SHALL NOT THE MINISTRATION OF THE SPIRIT BE RATHER GLORIOUS? — Better, _be more in glory._ The ministration of the spirit — that which has spirit for its characteristic attribute, and proceeds fro...
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...
(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...
HOW SHALL NOT THE MINISTRATION OF THE SPIRIT,.... By "the ministration of the Spirit", is meant the Gospel; so called not only because it ministers spiritual things, as peace, pardon, righteousness an...
How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? Ver. 8. _Be rather glorious_] Let this comfort the ministers of the gospel under the contempts cast upon them by the mad world, ever b...
_But_ The apostle having signified that he and the other true servants of Christ were intrusted with the ministry of the new covenant, in opposition to the old, proceeds now to show the great superior...
THE MINISTRATION OF THE SPIRIT; of the gospel, which is a spiritual dispensation, administered by the Holy Spirit, and giving life to the soul, instead of death. The chief reason why the Christian dis...
HOW SHALL NOT THE MINISTRATION OF THE SPIRIT BE RATHER GLORIOUS?...
The glory of the ministry of righteousness:...
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...
How shall not that ministration, which is more spiritual, and the effects of which are much more spiritual, be accounted much more glorious? Thus the apostle doth not only magnify the gospel above the...
how shall not rather the ministration of the spirit be with glory?...
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THE CONTRAST BETWEEN THE OLD AND THE NEW, BETWEEN MOSES' COVENANT AND CHRIST'S COVENANT (2 CORINTHIANS 3:7) ‘But if the ministration of death, written, and engraved on stones, came with glory, so that...
2 Corinthians 3:8. HOW SHALL NOT RATHER THE MINISTRATION OF THE SPIRIT of that which is “spirit and life,” be with glory?...
HOW SHALL NOT RATHER? (πως ουχ μαλλον?). _Argumentum a minore ad majus_ (from the less to the greater).OF THE SPIRIT (του πνευματος). Marked by the spirit. Picture of the Christian ministry now....
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 Jesu...
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....
HOW MUCH GREATER! In contrast to The Law, the service of the Spirit (1) gives life, not death; (2) is eternal, not fading away; (3) is written on hearts, not stone. Notice that in comparing the servic...
_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...
_How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?_ This glory of the evangelical law of righteousness was seen in the mighty wind and the different tongues of fire which, when the new...
_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 12:4; 1 Corinthians 3:16; 1 Peter 1:2; 2 Corinthians 11:4;...
Glorious [ε ν δ ο ξ η]. As in ver. 7, with glory....
The ministration of the Spirit — That is, the Christian dispensation....
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...