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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 3:18

The glorious transformation. An exulting joy scorns to have moved the soul of the apostle, when he meditated upon the present immunities and honours, and. upon the prospects of future blessedness and glory which, through Christ, belong to all true believers and followers of the Lord. A kind of spiritual exhilaration pervades and exalts his spirit, and adds eloquence and poetry to his enraptured language. I. UNINTERRUPTED VISION . The figure of the veil continues to haunt the mind... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 3:18

The great change. I. WHAT THIS CHANGE IS . Into the Divine likened. This, which was lost through the Fall, is recovered in the gospel. Believers become like Christ, who is the Brightness of the Father's glory, and the express Image of his person ( Hebrews 1:3 ). The change is not merely of opinion, or feeling, or even conduct, but a change of being . It is not something connected with ourselves, but our very selves which are changed, and changed so as to be like Christ. 1 ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 3:18

The Christian transfiguration. When Moses, the minister of the Law, communed with God, his countenance became irradiated, and, on his return to the people of Israel in the camp, he was obliged to put a veil over his face. But that radiance did not last long. It faded from the prophet's countenance; and this is taken to illustrate the passing away of the glory of all that legal ministration. The Jews who rejected that gospel which St. Paul preached were still occupied with the Law. Moses... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 3:18

The vision of God in Christianity. This passage contains evident reference to an incident occurring in the life of Moses. He had tarried on the mount for forty days, in some mysterious manner within the immediate radiance of the Divine glory, holding some very near, yet very secret, fellowship with God. We might expect to find an influence from such converse resting on Moses' spirit ever after, and we could not wonder if some traces of it were left upon his very face. Such was the case.... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:18

But we all - All Christians. The discussion in the chapter has related mainly to the apostles; but this declaration seems evidently to refer to all Christians, as distinguished from the Jews.With open face - compare note on 1 Corinthians 13:12. Tyndale renders this: “and now the Lord’s glory appeareth in us all as in a glass.” The sense is, “with unveiled face,” alluding to the fact 2 Corinthians 3:13 that the face of Moses was veiled, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look on... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Corinthians 3:17-18

2 Corinthians 3:17-18. Now the Lord Christ is that Spirit Of the law of which I spake before, to whom the letter of it was intended to lead; and it is the office of the Spirit of God, as the great agent in his kingdom, to direct the minds of men to it. And where the Spirit of the Lord is Enlightening and renewing men’s minds; there is liberty Not the veil, the emblem of slavery. There is liberty from servile fear, liberty from the guilt and power of sin, liberty to behold with open... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 3:1-18

3:1-6:13 TRUE CHRISTIAN SERVICEThe servant and the message (3:1-18)Some of the teachers who came to Corinth brought with them letters of recommendation from their home churches, and claimed that these letters gave them authority to teach. Paul carried no such letters, with the result that his opponents suggested he had no right to teach. Paul replies that pieces of paper do not guarantee the truth of people’s ministry. A better means of judging is by the fruit of their work. The Corinthian... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Corinthians 3:18

open = unveiled. See 2 Corinthians 3:14 . Here is the contrast. Moses alone beheld and reflected the Shekinah glory, we all behold and reflect the Lord's glory. beholding . . . glass = reflecting, as Revised Version. Greek. katoptrizo. Only here. changed = transformed. Greek. metamorphoomai. See Mark 9:2 . image . Greek. eiken. Compare Romans 8:29 . Co 2 Corinthians 1:3 , 2 Corinthians 1:10 . . Greek. apo . App-104 . by = from, Greek. apo . the Spirit of the Lord = the Lord the... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:18

But we all with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.On the identification of Lord and Spirit, see under preceding verse.Unveiled face ... All Christians, not just one man, as in the case of Moses, behold the glory of the Lord; and no veil is required. This has a transforming effect on all who do it. It is in the looking of the Christian upon the Lord, as invariably entailed in the... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:18

2 Corinthians 3:18. But we all, with open face— St. Paul justifies his freedom and plainness of speech, by his being made by God himself a minister of the Gospel, which is a more glorious ministry than that of Moses in promulgatingthe law. This he does from 2Co 3:6 to 2Co 3:12 inclusively: thence to the end of the chapter, he justifies his liberty of speaking, in that he, as a minister of the Gospel, being illuminated with greater and brighter rays of light than Moses, was to speak, as he did,... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 3:18

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 3:18

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 3:18

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 3:18

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:18

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Corinthians 3:17-18

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 3:1-18

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Corinthians 3:18

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:18

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:18

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