2 Corinthians 3:1-11
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- Historical References, Commentary and
Comparative Texts:
- V.XIII.4, Adversus Haereses, Irenaeus of Lyons. (c. 180)
- V.11, Against Marcion, Tertullian (c. 212)
- Chapter XVII, On Modesty, Tertullian (c. 217)
- I.I.2, First Principles (De Principiis), Origen. (c.225)
- IV.2, Philocalia [anthology of Origen prepared by St. Basil and St. Gregory Nazianzen], Origen. (c.230)
- VI.LXX, VII.XX, Against Celsus, Origen. (c.246)
- XII.20, Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, Origen. (c.247)
- VI.25, Ecclesiastical History, Eusebius of Caesarea, (c 320).
- Chapter 13, Ecclesiastical History: Martyrs of Palestine, Eusebius of Caesarea, (c. 320).
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"The
Two-Fold Use of Law and Gospel: "Letter" and "Spirit,"
2 Corinthians 3:4-11, Martin Luther, c. 1522.
- "Briefly, he would oppose the vain boasting of false apostles and preachers concerning their possession of the spirit and their peculiar skill and gifts, by praising and glorifying the office of a preacher of the Gospel with which he is intrusted."
- From the Geneva Notes.
- "The Law is as it were a writing in itself, dead, and without efficacy: but the Gospel, and new Covenant, as it were the very power of God itself, in renewing, justifying, and saving men. The Law offers death, accusing all men of unrighteousness: the Gospel offers and gives righteousness and life."
- From
Matthew Henry's
Commentary.
- "But even the New Testament will be a killing letter, if shown as a mere system or form, and without dependence on God the Holy Spirit, to give it a quickening power."
- From
Wesley's
Notes.
- "...if we adhere to the literal sense even of the moral law, if we regard only the precept and the sanction as they stand in themselves, not as they lead us to Christ, they are doubtless a killing ordinance, and bind us down under the sentence of death."
- From the
Commentary on the Whole Bible
(Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871).
- "True spirituality rests on the whole written word, applied to the soul by the Holy Spirit as the only infallible interpreter of its far-reaching spirituality. The letter is nothing without the spirit, in a subject essentially spiritual. The spirit is nothing without the letter, in a record substantially historical."
- From The People's
New Testament, B.W. Johnson, 1891.
- "The means employed by Christ to convey the message was the Spirit which filled Paul. All men who could see the transformation effected in the lives of the Corinthians could read the epistle."
- Contemporary Commentary, Studies and Exegesis:
- "Servants of the New Covenant," Rev. Bryan Findlayson, Lectionary Bible Studies and Sermons, Pumpkin Cottage Ministry Resources. Includes detailed textual notes.
- Articles & Background:
- "The Law Kills but the Gospel Gives Life: The Letter-Spirit Dualism in 2 Corinthians 3.5-18," Sigurd Grindheim, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
- "The Search for an Evangelical consensus on Paul and the Law," Mark W Karlberg, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 1997.
-
"The Spirit in the Present Age: Preliminary Fulfillment of the Predicted New
Covenant according to Paul," Paul R. Thorsell,
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 1998.
- "The purpose of this paper is to show that within the Pauline corpus the presence and activity of the Holy Spirit among believers demonstrates that the new covenant is currently operative, albeit in a partial and preliminary way."
- "Ecclesia,
Synagoga and the Fallen Crown: Anti-Jewish Propaganda in the Middle Ages." From
Jewish Heritage Online Magazine's Topic of the Month:
Crown.
- "A pair of female statues decorated many Gothic cathedrals and churches (usually outside the building) in Europe, especially in France, England and Germany. Ecclesia, representing the victorious, triumphant Church, takes the form of a proud, erect maiden, crowned and holding the cross. Synagoga, symbolizing the defeated Synagogue, is blindfolded (symbolizing blindness to the truth of the New Testament) and dejected, and her characteristic appurtenances are a broken staff, broken tablets of the Law (symbolizing the Old Testament), and a fallen crown."
- Recommended articles
from ATLAS, an online collection of religion and theology journals, are
linked below.
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selected theological schools, and clergy/church offices.
- Duff, Paul B.,
"Glory in the Ministry of Death: Gentile Condemnation and Letters of
Recommendation in 2 Cor. 3:6-18," Novum Testamentum, 2004.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Gleason, Randall C.,
"Paul's Covenantal Contrasts in 2 Corinthians 3:1-11," Bibliotheca
Sacra, 1997.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Grindheim, Sigurd,
"The Law Kills but the Gospel Gives Life: The Letter-Spirit Dualism in 2
Corinthians 3.5-18," Journal for the Study of the New Testament,
2001.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Hafemann, Scott,
"Paul's Use of the Old Testament in 2 Corinthians," Interpretation,
1998.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Hill, Edmund, "Construction of Three
Passages from St Paul," The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 1961.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Pederson, Sigfred,
"Paul's Understanding of the Biblical Law," Novum Testamentum,
2002.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Uddin, Mohan, "Paul, the Devil and 'Unbelief' in
Israel (with Particular Reference to 2 Corinthians 3-4 and Romans
9-11)," Tyndale Bulletin, 1999.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
- Duff, Paul B.,
"Glory in the Ministry of Death: Gentile Condemnation and Letters of
Recommendation in 2 Cor. 3:6-18," Novum Testamentum, 2004.
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