Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
2 Corinthians 3:10
That excelleth] The glory of the Law is completely eclipsed by that of the Gospel, which offers forgiveness instead of condemnation.
That excelleth] The glory of the Law is completely eclipsed by that of the Gospel, which offers forgiveness instead of condemnation.
Verse 2 Corinthians 3:10. _FOR EVEN THAT WHICH WAS MADE GLORIOUS_] The _law_, which was exhibited for a time in great glory and splendour, partly when it was given, and partly by the splendour of God...
FOR EVEN THAT WHICH WAS MADE GLORIOUS - (τὸ δεδοξασμένον to dedoxasmenon). That was splendid, excellent, or glorious. This refers doubtless, to the laws and institutions of Moses, especially to the...
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...
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...
EACH MAN A LETTER OF CHRIST (2 Corinthians 3:1-3)...
MADE GLORIOUS. glorified. Greek. _doxazo._ See p. 1511. HAD NO GLORY. was not glorified, as above. EXCELLETH. Greek. _huperballo._ Occurs here, 2 Corinthians 9:14; Ephesians 1:19; Ephesi
_For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth_ Rather, FOR EVEN THAT WHICH HAS BEEN GLORIFIED (i.e. the face of Moses, typical of the Law)...
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...
10. He again justifies (γάρ) what has just been said, adding καί to mark a new point. The Gospel’s superabundance in glory is shown by the fact that it absolutely eclipsed the Law. _For_ INDEED _that...
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...
ΚΑΙ ΓΆΡ ибо даже. Более точное обоснование предыдущего утверждения (Meyer), ΔΕΔΌΞΑΣΤΑΙ _perf. ind. pass. от_ ΔΟΞΆΖΩ (G1392) думать хорошо о чем-л., прославлять; _pass._ делаться славным, ΔΕΔΟΞΑΣΜΈΝΟ...
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...
FOR EVEN THAT WHICH WAS MADE GLORIOUS— Though the shewing that the ministration of the gospel is more glorious than that of the law, be what St. Paul is treating of here, thereby to justify himself, i...
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...
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,...
For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. For even the ministration of condemnation, the law, (which has been glorified at Sinai in...
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...
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 EVEN THAT WHICH WAS MADE GLORIOUS HAD NO GLORY. — More accurately, St. Paul reproducing the very tense which he found in the LXX. of Exodus 34:35, _that which had been glorified has not been glori...
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...
καὶ γὰρ οὐ δεδόξασται : _for that which hath been made glorious, sc._, the Ministration of the Old Covenant, _hath not_ [really] _been made glorious in this respect, viz., on account of the surpassing...
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...
(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...
10._What was rendered glorious. _This is not a correction of what goes before, but rather a confirmation; for he means that the glory of the law is extinguished when the gospel comes forth. As the moo...
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 EVEN THAT WHICH WAS MADE GLORIOUS,.... The apostle grants that there was a glory in the law: it "was made glorious"; it was glorious in the author of it, who is God; it was of his appointing and o...
For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. Ver. 10. _Had no glory_] To speak of, and in comparison. The light of the law was obscured a...
_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...
HAD NO GLORY; ceased to appear as glorious. IN THIS RESPECT; in comparing its glory with the greater glory of the gospel....
The glory of the ministry of righteousness:...
FOR EVEN THAT WHICH WAS MADE GLORIOUS HAD NO GLORY IN THIS RESPECT, BY REASON OF THE GLORY WHICH EXCELS....
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 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 accoun...
For verily that which hath been made glorious hath not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasseth....
Origen Commentary on Matthew Book X But "that which hath been made glorious hath not been made glorious in this respect by reason of the glory that surpasseth; "[39]...
2 Corinthians 3:10 For G1063 even G2532 glorious G1392 (G5769) no G3761 glory G1392 (G5772) in G1722 thi
‘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 3:10. FOR VERILY THAT WHICH HATH BEEN MADE GLORIOUS HATH NOT BEEN MADE GLORIOUS IN THIS RESPECT _i.e. ‘_ hath had its glory eclipsed,' BY REASON OF THE GLORY THAT SURPASSETH....
IN THIS RESPECT (εν τουτω τω μερε). The glory on the face of Moses was temporary, though real, and passed away (verse 2 Corinthians 3:7), a type of the dimming of the glory of the old dispensation b...
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....
BECAUSE OF. Paul sees value in God's old covenant (Romans 15:4), yet the far brighter glory of the service of the Spirit supersedes and displaces all else!!!...
_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...
_For even that which was made glorious_, &c. _For_, by a common Hebraism, is here assertive, not causal. The glory of Moses cannot be called glory when compared with that of the Apostolic office, whic...
_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 Peter 1:17; Acts 26:13; Haggai 2:3; Haggai 2:7; Isaiah 24:23;...
That which was made glorious had no glory in this respect [ο υ δ ε δ ο ξ α σ τ α ι τ ο δ ε δ ο ξ α σ μ ε ν ο ν ε ν τ ο υ τ ω τ ω μ ε ρ ε ι]. Rev., that which hath been made glorious hath not been made...
It hath no glory in this respect, because of the glory that excelleth — That is, none in comparison of this more excellent glory. The greater light swallows up the less....
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...