BUTLER'S COMMENTARY Chapter Three THE PROBLEM OF LEGALISM (2 Corinthians 3:1-18) IDEAS TO INVESTIGATE: 1. Why is Paul bothered about letters of recommendation? 2. How do people become letters of recommendation? 3. If the old dispensation was so glorious Israel could not look on Moses-' fac... [ Continue Reading ]
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Self-commendation Scripture_ 2 Corinthians 3:1. Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? or need we, as do some, epistles of commendation to you or from you? _Comments_ Are we beginning again to commend ourselves.Paul had just written of the glorious triumph of the mess... [ Continue Reading ]
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 1 It Dooms The Soul (2 Corinthians 3:1-6) 3 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or from you? 2You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on your hearts, to be known and read by all men;... [ Continue Reading ]
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Scripture_ 2 Corinthians 3:2-3. Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, known and read of all men; 3 being made manifest that ye are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone but in table tha... [ Continue Reading ]
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, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God; 6 who also made us sufficie... [ Continue Reading ]
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 look at Moses-' face because of its brightness, fading as this was, 8will not the dispensation of t... [ Continue Reading ]
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Paul's Great Boldness of Speech Scripture_ 2 Corinthians 3:12-13. Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech, 13 and are not as Moses, who put a veil upon his face, that the children of Israel should not look steadfastly on the end of that which was passing... [ Continue Reading ]
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 3 It Divests People of Freedom (2 Corinthians 3:12-17) 12 Since we have such a hope, we are very bold, 13not like Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not see the end of the fading splendor. 14But their minds were hardened; for to this day,... [ Continue Reading ]
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Hardened Minds Scripture_ 2 Corinthians 3:14-15. But their minds were hardened: for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remaineth, it not being revealed to them that it is done away in Christ. 15 But unto this day, whensoever Moses is read, a... [ Continue Reading ]
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Transformed Scripture_ 2 Corinthians 3:16-18. But whensoever it shall turn to the Lord the veil is taken away. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18 But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lor... [ Continue Reading ]
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 4 Defense Against Legalism (2 Corinthians 3:18) 18And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being changed into his likeness from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit. 2 CORINTHIANS 3:18 TRANSFORMATION... [ Continue Reading ]