2Corinthians:3

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* Doe we begin to praise our selues againe ? or neede we as some other , epistles of recommendation vnto you , or letters of recommendation from you ? * Yee are our epistle , written in our hearts , which is vnderstand , and read of all men , * [Forasmuch as ye are ] (note :)The apostle says this wisely , that by little and little he may come from the commendation of the person to the matter itself .(:note ) manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ Which I took pains to write as it were . ministered by us , written not with ink , but with the Spirit of the Along the way he sets the power of God against the ink with which epistles are commonly written , to show that it was accomplished by God . living God ; He alludes along the way to the comparison of the outward ministry of the priesthood of Levi with the ministry of the Gospel , and the apostolical ministry , which he handles afterward more fully . not in tables of stone , but in fleshy tables of the heart . * And such (note :)This boldness we show , and thus may we boast gloriously of the worthiness and fruit of our ministry .(:note ) trust have we through Christ to God-ward : * Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves ; but our (note :)In that we are proper and able to make other men partakers of so great a grace .(:note ) sufficiency [is ] of God ; * * But if the ministration of death , written (note :)Imprinted and engraved : so that by this place we may plainly perceive that the apostle speaks not of the ceremonies of the Law , but of the ten commandments .(:note ) [and ] engraven in stones , was This word «glorious » indicates a brightness , and a majesty which was in Moses physically , but in Christ spiritually . 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 : * How shall not the (note :)By which God offers , indeed , and gives the Spirit , not as a dead thing , but a living Spirit , working life .(:note ) ministration of the spirit be rather glorious ? * For if the ministration of condemnation [be ] glory , much more doth the ministration of (note :)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 .(:note ) righteousness exceed in glory . * For euen that which was glorified , was not glorified in this point , that is , as touching the exceeding glorie . * For if that which is (note :)The Law , indeed , and the ten commandments themselves , together with Moses , are all abolished , if we consider the ministry of Moses apart by itself .(:note ) done away [was ] glorious , much more that which remaineth [is ] glorious . * * * Therefore their mindes are hardened : for vntill this day remaineth the same couering vntaken away in the reading of the olde Testament , which vaile in Christ is put away . * But euen vnto this day , whe Moses is read , the vaile is laid ouer their hearts . * Neuertheles when their heart shall be turned to the Lord , the vaile shalbe taken away . * Now the (note :)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 .(:note ) Lord is that Spirit : and where the Spirit of the Lord [is ], there [is ] liberty . *

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