CHAPTER 8 LIVING EPISTLES. 2 Corinthians 3:1 (R.V) "ARE we beginning again to commend ourselves?" Paul does not mean by these words to admit that he had been commending himself before: he means that he has been accused already of doing so, and that there are those at Corinth who, when they hear su... [ Continue Reading ]
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 tone of those sentences was open to misinterpretation, and Paul guards himself against this on two... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER 10 THE TRANSFIGURING SPIRIT 2 Corinthians 3:12 (R.V) THE "hope" which here explains the Apostle's freedom of speech is to all intents and purposes the same as the "confidence" in 2 Corinthians 3:4. It is much easier to suppose that the word is thus used with a certain latitude, as it might... [ Continue Reading ]