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James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 3:7-11

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 3:7-1 Kings : In these verses we have a comparison between the old and the new dispensations in defence of St. Paul’s ministry: a comparison from the less to the greater. The old was glorious in the circumstances of its promulgation at Sinai, but it is excelled in glory by the new. I. Death and life.—The law was a ministration of... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:7-8

The Contrast Between the Old and the New, Between Moses’ Covenant and Christ’s Covenant (2 Corinthians 3:7-11 ) ‘But if the ministration of death, written, and engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face, which glory was passing away, how shall not rather the ministration of the spirit be with glory?’ At the thought of the new covenant he now digresses as he considers the wonder of what he is... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:9

‘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 man to his sin but could do nothing further for him (although God did provide through the sacrificial system a means of atonement. But even that became trivialised - Isaiah 1:11-15). But the other actually administers righteousness. It firstly makes men righteous in the sight of God (2 Corinthians... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:10-11

‘For truly that which has been made glorious has not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasses For if that which passes away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.’ ‘In this respect’ or ‘in this case’ may also be translated ‘partially’ (thus ‘that which has been made glorious partially has not been made glorious’ i.e fully glorious), but either way the sense is clear. For while we can certainly say that the first was made glorious, its glory is... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:7-16

2 Corinthians 3:7-Nehemiah : . 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, and while its inferiority was shown by its being engraved on tables of stone (though it was destined to pass away), was nevertheless promulgated in circumstances of dazzling splendour— though even that was a splendour that was fading. How much greater must be the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:8

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 law, but he also magnifieth his offices in the ministration of the gospel; which ministration he reasonably concludeth to be a more glorious ministration than that which Moses had, in whom the Jews so much gloried. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:9

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 unto eternal death, as showing men sin, so accusing and condemning men for sinful acts. If it pleased God (saith the apostle) to make that ministration glorious, that the minister of the law (Moses) appeared so glorious in the eyes of Aaron and of the people; the ministration of righteousness (by which... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:10

The law had in it something of intrinsic glory and excellency, as it was the revelation of the will of God to and concerning his creatures; there was an inseparable glory attending it upon that account: and it was made glorious in the ministration of it; as it pleased God that the giving of it should be attended with thunder and lightning, fire and smoke, and an earthquake, and a voice like to the sound of a trumpet, as we read, Exodus 19:16-18; this was an accidental and adventitious glory,... 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 3:8

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 Jesus, the new world of redeemed and regenerate sons, created and held in its true spiritual orbit by the power of Christ, the Eternal Sun. The ministry of the Holy Ghost issues in a new social organism, which buries the hates of centuries out of sight, lifts purity to absolute supremacy, and makes the... read more

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - 2 Corinthians 3:7-11

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:7-8

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:9

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:10-11

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:7-16

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:8

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:9

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:10

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

Sermon Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 3:8

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