[Forasmuch as ye are] (a) manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ (b) ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the (c) living God; (1) not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart. (a) The apostle says this wisely, that by little and little he may come fro... [ Continue Reading ]
And such (d) trust have we through Christ to God-ward: (d) This boldness we show, and thus may we boast gloriously of the worthiness and fruit of our ministry.... [ Continue Reading ]
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our (e) sufficiency [is] of God; (e) In that we are proper and able to make other men partakers of so great a grace.... [ Continue Reading ]
(2) Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the (f) letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. (2) He amplifies his ministry and his fellows: that is to say, the ministry of the Gospel comparing it with the ministry of the Law, which he... [ Continue Reading ]
But if the ministration of death, written (g) [and] engraven in stones, was (h) glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which [glory] was to be done away: (g) Imprinted and engraved: so that by this place we may plainl... [ Continue Reading ]
How shall not the (i) ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? (i) By which God offers, indeed, and gives the Spirit, not as a dead thing, but a living Spirit, working life.... [ Continue Reading ]
For if the ministration of condemnation [be] glory, much more doth the ministration of (k) righteousness exceed in glory. (k) That is, of Christ. And since he is imputed to us as our own, we are not condemned, and what is more we are also crowned as righteous.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 we consider the ministry of Moses apart by itself.... [ Continue Reading ]
(3) Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: (3) He shows what this glory of the preaching of the Gospel consists in: that is, in that it sets forth plainly and evidently that which the Law showed darkly, for it sent those that heard it to be healed by Christ, who was t... [ Continue Reading ]
(4) And not as Moses, [which] put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the (m) end of that which is abolished: (4) He expounds along the way the allegory of Moses' covering, which was a token of the darkness and weakness that is in men, who were rather dull... [ Continue Reading ]
Now the (n) Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord [is], there [is] liberty. (n) Christ is that Spirit who takes away that covering, by working in our hearts, to which also the Law itself called us, though in vain, because it speaks to dead men, until the Spirit makes us alive.... [ Continue Reading ]
(5) But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, [even] as by the Spirit of the Lord. (5) Continuing in the allegory of the covering, he compares the Gospel to a glass, which although it is most bright and sparkling,... [ Continue Reading ]