2 Corinthians 3:10 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. ”

2 Corinthians 3:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For even that which was made glorious - ( τὸ δεδοξασμένον to dedoxasmenon). That was splendid, excellent, or glorious. This refers doubtless, to the laws and institutions of Moses, especiall...
2 Corinthians 3:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

This opens the way for a comparison between the ministry under the one covenant and the ministry under the other. The former, even though its issue was historically failure, condemnation, and death,...
2 Corinthians 3:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

made glorious . glorified. Greek. doxazo. See p. 1511. had no glory . was not glorified, as above. excelleth . Greek. huperballo. Occurs here, 2 Corinthians 9:14 ; Ephesians 1:19 ; Ephesi...
2 Corinthians 3:10 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

10. What was rendered glorious. This is not a correction of what goes before, but rather a confirmation; for he means that the glory of the law is extinguished when the gospel comes forth. A...
2 Corinthians 3:10 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 2009 THE GLORY OF THE GOSPEL ABOVE THAT OF THE LAW 2 Corinthians 3:7-11 . If the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel co...
2 Corinthians 3:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. For even that which was made glorious - The law, which was exhibited for a time in great glo...
2 Corinthians 3:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For even that which was made glorious— Though the shewing that the ministration of the gospel is more glorious than that of the law, be what St. Paul is treating of here, thereby to justify himself...
2 Corinthians 3:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. For even the ministration of condemnation, the law, 2 Corinthians 3:7 (which has be...
2 Corinthians 3:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

This chapter is closely connected with what goes before, and carries on the vindication of the Apostle's conduct.
2 Corinthians 3:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

For even that which was made glorious had no glory. — More accurately, St. Paul reproducing the very tense which he found in the LXX. of Exodus 34:35 , that which had been glorified has not been...
2 Corinthians 3:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 9 THE TWO COVENANTS. 2 Corinthians 3:4-11 (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 chap...
2 Corinthians 3:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Veil upon the Heart 2 Corinthians 3:7-18 By a quick turn of thought, Paul passes from the idea of the fleshly tablets of the heart, where God writes His new name, to the Law graven on the a...
2 Corinthians 3:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The apostle declared that the Church is the supreme credential of the power of the ministry. The Corinthian Christians are "known and read of all men." This, however, was not the deepest truth. They...
2 Corinthians 3:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(7) But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; whi...
2 Corinthians 3:10 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

LAW AND GOSPEL COMPARED ‘But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, … much more that which remaineth is glorious.’ 2 Corinthians 3:7-11 In these verses w...
2 Corinthians 3:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For even that which was made glorious ,.... The apostle grants that there was a glory in the law: it "was made glorious"; it was glorious in the author of it, who is God; it was of his appointing an...
2 Corinthians 3:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. Ver. 10. Had no glory ] To speak of, and in comparison. The light of the law was obscure...
2 Corinthians 3:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Even that which was made glorious The law, especially at its first dispensation; had no glory in this respect , &c. That is, none in comparison of the gospel, which has such a transcendent glo...
2 Corinthians 3:10 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Did the Corinthians assume that Paul was merely commending himself or defending himself in penning the last verse of chapter 2? It was not so; but necessity demanded that they should recognize that h...
2 Corinthians 3:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Law and Gospel Compared. A. D. 57. 6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testame...
2 Corinthians 3:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 accou...
2 Corinthians 3:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘For truly that which has been made glorious has not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasses For if that which passes away was with glory, much more that which remai...
2 Corinthians 3:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES N.B. A continuous outpour of argument and appeal, all “alive,” and quivering, thrilling, with quick emotion, from 2 Corinthians 2:17 to 2 Corinthians 6:10 . 2 Corinthians...
2 Corinthians 3:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Corinthians 3:1 . Do we begin again to commend ourselves? A happy mode of recovery, as though he had slidden unawares into self-applause, when contrasting his ministry with that of false teacher...
2 Corinthians 3:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

But if the ministration of death … was glorious The peculiar glory of the gospel I. That contrasted with the law as “the ministration of condemnation” the gospel is the “ministration of righte...
2 Corinthians 3:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Defence against the charge of self-recommendation, which St. Paul does not need ( 2 Corinthians 3:1-47 ). His sufficiency comes from God ( 2 Corinthians 3:4-47 ), who has made him min...
2 Corinthians 3:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The glory of the ministry of righteousness:
2 Corinthians 3:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Peter 1:17 ; Acts 26:13 ; Haggai 2:3 ; Haggai 2:7-9 ; Isaiah 24:23 ; Job 25:5 ; Philippians 3:7-8 ; Revelation 21:23 ; Revelation 21:24 ; Revelation 22:5
2 Corinthians 3:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

It hath no glory in this respect, because of the glory that excelleth — That is, none in comparison of this more excellent glory. The greater light swallows up the less.

2 Corinthians 3:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

2 Corinthians 3:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Corinthians 3:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

2 Corinthians 3:10 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

2 Corinthians 3:10 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

2 Corinthians 3:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

2 Corinthians 3:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

2 Corinthians 3:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

2 Corinthians 3:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2 Corinthians 3:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

2 Corinthians 3:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2 Corinthians 3:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

2 Corinthians 3:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

2 Corinthians 3:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

2 Corinthians 3:10 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

2 Corinthians 3:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Corinthians 3:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Corinthians 3:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Corinthians 3:10 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

2 Corinthians 3:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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

2 Corinthians 3:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

2 Corinthians 3:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2 Corinthians 3:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Corinthians 3:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

2 Corinthians 3:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

2 Corinthians 3:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

2 Corinthians 3:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 3:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes