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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:9

What the apostle before called the ministration of death, he here calleth the ministration of condemnation; and therin gives us a reason why he called it the ministration of death, because it led unto eternal death, as showing men sin, so accusing and condemning men for sinful acts. If it pleased God (saith the apostle) to make that ministration glorious, that the minister of the law (Moses) appeared so glorious in the eyes of Aaron and of the people; the ministration of righteousness (by which... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:10

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 account: and it was made glorious in the ministration of it; as it pleased God that the giving of it should be attended with thunder and lightning, fire and smoke, and an earthquake, and a voice like to the sound of a trumpet, as we read, Exodus 19:16-18; this was an accidental and adventitious glory,... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:11

The apostle, by another argument, proveth the ministration of the gospel to be much more glorious than the ministration of the law, because it is more durable and abiding. The strength of the argument dependeth upon this principle, that any durable good is more excellent and glorious than that which is but transitory, and for a time. The ministration of the law is done away; the law, contained in ordinances, is itself done away, and therefore the ministration of it must needs cease. There are... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:12

Hope here signifieth nothing but a confident, certain expectation of something that is hereafter to come to pass. The term such referreth to something which went before: the sense is: We being in a certain confident expectation, that our ministration of the gospel shall not cease, as the ministration of the law hath done; and that the doctrine of the gospel brings in not a temporary, but an everlasting righteousness; that there shall never be any righteousness revealed, wherein any soul can... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:13

We have the history to which this passage of the apostle relateth, in Exodus 34:33,Exodus 34:35, where we read, that when Moses had done speaking, he put a veil on his face. The apostle here elegantly turns that passage into an allegory, and opens to us a mystery hidden under that piece of history. That shining of Moses’s face, in a type, prefigured the shining of Him who was to be the light of the world; as he was from eternity the brightness of his Father’s glory. Moses’s covering himself... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:14

Here the apostle expoundeth what he meant before by the mystical veil, viz. the blinding of the eyes of the Jews; of which we read often in the New Testament, Matthew 13:14; Mark 4:12; Luke 8:10; John 12:40; Acts 28:26; Romans 11:8; see the notes upon all those texts. And (saith the apostle) to this day the veil remaineth not taken away; that veil, which was signified by the veil with which Moses covered his face. In the reading of the Old Testament, is, when the Old Testament is read: some... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:15

The veil, mystically signified by the veil upon Moses’s face, which hindereth them from seeing or discerning the Messiah to be come. But why doth he say, when Moses, that is, the books of Moses, or rather of the Old Testament, are read? Possibly he thereby hinteth, that it was their duty, when in the synagogues they heard the chapters of the Old Testament read, which contain the types and prophecies of Christ, they ought to have looked through those veils, and have considered Christ as the end... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:16

When it shall turn, may be understood of the whole, or of the generality (at least) of the Jews; when they shall be converted to the faith of Christ, or when any particular person shall be converted to Christ, then the veil shall be taken away; not the veil with which God covered and veiled the mysteries of the gospel, (that was already taken away upon Christ’s coming in the flesh), but the veil of blindness, which they had drawn over their own souls. Though the light of the gospel shineth... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:17

The Lord Christ was a man, but not a mere man; but one who had the Divine nature personally united to his human nature, which is called the Spirit, Mark 2:8. But some think, that the article here is not merely prepositive, but emphatical; and so referreth to 2 Corinthians 3:6, where the gospel (the substance of which is Christ) was called the Spirit. So it is judged by some, that the apostle preventeth a question which some might have propounded, viz. how the veil should be taken away by men’s... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:18

Some by we here understand all believers; others think it is better understood of ministers: but the universal particle all rather guideth us to interpret it of the whole body of believers, of whom the apostle saith, that they all behold the glory of God with open face; that is, not under those dark types, shadows, and prophecies, that he was of old revealed under, but as in a looking glass, which represents the face as at hand; not as in a perspective, which showeth things afar off. We behold... read more

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:9

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:10

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:11

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:12

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:13

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:14

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:15

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:16

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:17

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 3:18

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