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2 Corinthians 3

1 He taketh for example the faith of the Corinthians for a probation of the truth which he preached, 6 And to exalt his Apostleship against the brags of the false apostles. 7 13 He maketh comparison betwixt the Law and the Gospel.
1.Do awe begin to praise our selves again? or need we as some other, epistles of recommendation unto you, or letters of recommendation from you?
2.Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, which is understand and read of all men,
3.In that ye are manifest, to be the epistle of Christ, bministered by us, and written, not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in ctables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart.
4.And such trust have we through Christ to God:
5.Not that we are sufficient of our selves, to think any thing, as of our selves: but our sufficiency is of God.
6.Who also hath made us able ministers of the New testament, not of the dletter but of the eSpirit: for the letter killeth, but the fSpirit giveth life.
7.If then the ministration gof death written with letters and engraved in stones, was glorious so that the children of Israel could not behold the face of Moses for the hglory of his countenance (which glory is done away)
8.How shall not the ministration of the Spirit be more glorious?
9.For if the ministry of icondemnation was glorious, much more doeth the ministration of krighteousness exceed in glory.
10.For even that which was glorified, was not glorified in this point, that is, as touching the exceeding glory.
11.For if that which should be abolished, was glorious, much more shall that which remaineth, be glorious.
12.Seeing then that we have such trust, we use lgreat boldness of speech.
13.*And we are not as Moses, which mput a vail upon his face, that the children of Israel should not look unto the end of that which should be abolished.
14.Therefore their minds are hardened: for until this day remaineth the same covering untaken away in the reading of the Old testament, which vail in Christ is put away.
15.But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is layed over their hearts.
16.Nevertheless when their heart shalbe turned to the Lord, the vail shalbe taken away.
17.Now the nLord is the *Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
18.But we all behold as in a omirror the glory of the Lord with open face, and are changed into the same image, from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord.

Notes

1-a.
Meaning himself, Timothy and Silvanus.
3-b.
Who were God’s pen.
3-c.
The hardness of man’s heart before he be regenerate, is as a stone table, Eze. 11.19, and 36.26 but being regenerate by the Spirit of God, it is as soft as flesh, that the grace of the Gospel may be written in it, as in new tables, Jer. 31.33.
6-d.
Whose minister Moses was.
6-e.
Which Christ gave.
6-f.
Meaning, the spiritual doctrine, which is in our hearts.
7-g.
Thus he names the Law in comparison of the Gospel.
7-h.
After that God had spoken with him and given him the Law.
9-i.
For the Law declares all men to be under condemnation.
9-k.
Meaning, of the Gospel which declares that Christ, is made our righteousness.
12-l.
In preaching the Gospel.
13-*.
Exo. 34.33.
13-m.
Moses showed the Law as it was covered with shadows, so that the Jews eyes were not lightened but blinded, and so could not come to Christ who was the end thereof: whereas the Gospel sets forth is the glory of God clearly, not covering our eyes, but driving the darkness away from them.
17-*.
John 4.24.
17-n.
Christ is our mediator, and author of the New testament, whose doctrine is spiritual, and gives life to the Law.
18-o.
In Christ, who is God manifested in the flesh, we see God the Father as in a most clear glass.