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Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - 2 Corinthians 3:18

2 Corinthians TRANSFORMATION BY BEHOLDING 2Co_3:18 . This whole section of the Epistle in which our text occurs is a remarkable instance of the fervid richness of the Apostle’s mind, which acquires force by motion, and, like a chariot-wheel, catches fire as it revolves. One of the most obvious peculiarities of his style is his habit of ‘going off at a word.’ Each thought is, as it were, barbed all round, and catches and draws into sight a multitude of others, but slightly related to the... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - 2 Corinthians 3:7-18

the Veil upon the Heart 2 Corinthians 3:7-18 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 tables of stone, and to the Lawgiver, stern and veiled. He argues that if the glory which shone on the face of Moses was so beautiful, surely that of the gospel must be transcendently so. The one is transient, the other abiding; the one is reflected, the other direct. Not only was Moses veiled,... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:1-18

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 were the epistle of Christ. The author and the Writer of the living epistle is Christ; the pen or instrument is the apostle. The ink, or means of accomplishing the revelation, is the Spirit. The true credentials of Christian ministry are always such epistles. Then follows a comparison between the... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 3:18

REFLECTING CHRIST‘But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.’ 2 Corinthians 3:18 It is the law of human nature that whatever we habitually, intelligently, and lovingly contemplate gives a colour to our minds, and affects our character for good or evil. Here St. Paul puts it, when Christ is viewed lovingly, the viewer becomes Christlike. Therefore, our duty is plain. I. If we... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:18

‘But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror (or ‘beholding intently’) the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.’ The literal order of the words is ‘but we all with unveiled face the glory of the Lord beholding as in a mirror.’ So we could translate, ‘beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord (manifested) with unveiled face (singular)’. So the first question must be as to whose face is here seen as... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:18

Some by we here understand all believers; others think it is better understood of ministers: but the universal particle all rather guideth us to interpret it of the whole body of believers, of whom the apostle saith, that they all behold the glory of God with open face; that is, not under those dark types, shadows, and prophecies, that he was of old revealed under, but as in a looking glass, which represents the face as at hand; not as in a perspective, which showeth things afar off. We behold... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 2 Corinthians 3:1-18

CRITICAL NOTESN.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 Corinthians 3:1.—Q.d. “There, he is at it again! [2 Corinthians 2:17, or perhaps cf. 1 Corinthians 9:1-6; 1 Corinthians 9:15; 1 Corinthians 9:21; or something he had said at Corinth, known to his readers]. Praising himself!” [Familiarly, “Blowing his own trumpet, since no one else will do it for him.”] “Am I?” (q.d. in 2... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 3:12-18

2 Corinthians 3:12-18 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. When his face is shining with most radiance, then it is that he bares it before the assembled multitude. They dread to come near him, but they are persuaded to draw nigh, and with his face shining with the glory that it got from God, he talks to the people; when he has done speaking, he hides his... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 3:18

2 Corinthians 3:18 The Intuition of Faith. St. Paul says that we, as members of Christ, behold the manifold glory of God as in a glass, as if it were a direct object of sight, and that by beholding it we are changed. It has an assimilating power, and that which makes us capable of its transforming influence is our beholding it "with open face." What, then, is this power of vision, this spiritual sight by which the unseen is visible; in one word, what is faith? It is the power which the Son of... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - 2 Corinthians 3:18

DISCOURSE: 2012THE EXCELLENCY AND EFFICACY OF THE GOSPEL2 Corinthians 3:18. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.THE Jews, when compared with the heathen world, were highly privileged; but the dispensation under which they lived was in every respect inferior to that of the Gospel. Of this we are fully informed in the chapter before us. The Apostle, in vindicating his own... read more

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - 2 Corinthians 3:18

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - 2 Corinthians 3:7-18

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:1-18

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 3:18

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:18

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:18

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 2 Corinthians 3:1-18

Sermon Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 3:12-18

Sermon Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 3:18

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - 2 Corinthians 3:18

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