John Trapp Complete Commentary
2 Corinthians 3:11
For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
Ver. 11. Much more that, &c.] As the sun outshineth Lucifer his herald.
For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
Ver. 11. Much more that, &c.] As the sun outshineth Lucifer his herald.
Verse 2 Corinthians 3:11. _FOR IF THAT WHICH IS DONE AWAY_, c.] Here is another striking difference between the _law_ and the _Gospel_. The former is termed τοκαταργουμενον, that _which_ is _counterw...
FOR IF THAT WHICH IS DONE AWAY ... - The splendor that attended the giving of the Law; the bright shining of the face of Moses; and the ritual institutions of his religion. It was to be done away. It...
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...
GLORIOUS. through (Greek. _dia._ App-104. 2 Corinthians 3:1) glory. REMAINETH. Greek. _meno._ See p. 1511. GLORIOUS. in (Greek. _en)_ glory....
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...
_For if that which is done away_ Rather, is (or was) BEING done away. See note on 2 Corinthians 3:7. _was glorious_ Literally, was BY MEANS OF, or THROUGH glory, i.e. was accompanied with, or seen th...
11. He continues the justification (γάρ) of what has been said. _For if that which_ IS BEING _done away_ (2 Corinthians 3:7) _was_ THROUGH GLORY, _much more that which_ abideth (Romans 9:11) _is in gl...
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...
ΕΊ ΓΆΡ ибо если; продолжение объяснения и доказательство аргумента, КАΤΑΡΓΟΎΜΕΝΟΝ _praes. pass. part. пот. n. sing. от_ ΚΑΤΑΡΓΈΩ (G2673) делать бездейственным (_см._ 2 Corinthians 3:7). Средний род о...
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...
IF THAT WHICH IS DONE AWAY— St. Paul here mentions another pre-eminence and superiority of glory in the gospel over the law; namely, that the law was to cease and be abolished, but the gospel to remai...
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,...
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...
For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious. WAS GLORIOUS - literally, 'was with glory;' or 'marked by glory' [ dia (G1223) doxees (G1391)]. THAT WHICH...
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...
3:11 annulled (a-4) 'That annulled,' or 'done away,' may appear a little harsh, but the apostle uses it as a formula for the old covenant done away in Christ. If this be borne in mind, the sense will...
THAT WHICH IS DONE AWAY, etc.] another aspect of the truth stated in 2 Corinthians 3:10....
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...
This chapter is closely connected with what goes before, and carries on the vindication of the Apostle's conduct....
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...
FOR IF THAT WHICH IS DONE AWAY... — The Greek participle is in the present tense, “being done away,” or “failing,” expressing the same thought as the “decaying and waxing old” of Hebrews 8:13. The con...
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...
εἰ γὰρ τὸ καταργ. κ. τ. λ.: _for if that which passes away was with glory, much more that which abideth is in glory_. The difference of prepositions διὰ δόξης … ἐν δόξῃ should not be overlooked; the M...
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...
For if that which is (l) done away [was] glorious, much more that which remaineth [is] glorious. (l) The Law, indeed, and the ten commandments themselves, together with Moses, are all abolished, if w...
(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...
FOR IF THAT WHICH IS DONE AWAY,.... Here another difference is pointed out, which subsists between the law and the Gospel, and proves that the one is more excellent and glorious than the other. The la...
_Even that which was made glorious_ The law, especially at its first dispensation; _had no glory in this respect_, &c. That is, none in comparison of the gospel, which has such a transcendent glory in...
THAT WHICH IS DONE AWAY; the Mosaic dispensation. THAT WHICH REMAINETH; the gospel dispensation. IS GLORIOUS; as accomplishing a more glorious work, and to continue with increasing power to the end...
FOR IF THAT WHICH IS DONE AWAY WAS GLORIOUS, MUCH MORE THAT WHICH REMAINETH IS GLORIOUS. The contrast of v. 6 is here carried out in detail, probably on account of the Judaizing opponents in Corinth,...
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...
The apostle, by another argument, proveth the ministration of the gospel to be much more glorious than the ministration of the law, because it is more durable and abiding. The strength of the argument...
For if that which passeth away was with glory, much more that which remaineth is in glory. [If the old covenant which brought death glorified its introducing minister, so that the face of Moses shone...
2 Corinthians 3:11 For G1063 if G1487 away G2673 (G5746) glorious G1223 G1391 remains G3306 (G5723) much
‘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 remain...
2 Corinthians 3:11. FOR IF THAT WHICH PASSETH AWAY which was in its own nature but transitory, WAS WITH GLORY was ushered in with manifestations of awful glory MUCH MORE THAT WHICH REMAINETH the endur...
PASSETH AWAY (καταργουμενον). In process of disappearing before the gospel of Christ.REMAINETH (μενον). The new ministry is permanent. This claim may be recommended to those who clamour for a new...
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....
FOR. "If there was glory in the service of Judaism, how much more glory is there in the service of the Spirit, which lasts forever!!!" Compare Hebrews 8:13. Paul probably says this for the benefit of...
_For if the ministration of condemnation be glory._ CONDEMNATION AND RIGHTEOUSNESS here replace death and life, because it is through condemnation that man becomes the prey of death; and the grace wh...
_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 3:10 Now that the new covenant has come, the old covenant HAS COME TO HAVE NO GLORY AT ALL, since God is no longer revealing himself through it. The glory of the ne...
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...
_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...
2 Corinthians 3:6; 2 Corinthians 3:7; 2 Corinthians 4:1; Hebrews 12:25;...
That which is done away [τ ο κ α τ α ρ γ ο υ μ ε ν ο ν]. Lit., which is being done away; in course of abolition through the preaching of the Gospel. Both the A. V., and Rev. passeth fail to bring, out...
That which remaineth — That dispensation which remains to the end of the world; that spirit and life which remain for ever....
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...