“ Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away. ”
Nevertheless - This is not always to continue. The time is coming when they shall understand their own Scriptures, and see their true beauty. When it shall turn to the Lord - When the Jewish...
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,...
it. i.e. the heart of Israel. turn. Greek. epistrepho. Often translated "return", or be converted". See Matthew 13:15 . John 12:40 ; Acts 3:19 ; Acts 28:27 . Lord. App-98. taken away....
16. But when he shall have turned to the Lord. This passage has hitherto been badly rendered, for both Greek and Latin writers have thought that the word Israel was to be understood, whereas...
DISCOURSE: 2010 THE FUTURE CONVERSION OF THE JEWS 2 Corinthians 3:15-16 . Even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart. Nevertheless, when it shall turn to the Lord, the...
Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away. When it shall turn to the Lord - When the Israelitish nation shall turn to the Lord Jesus, the veil shall be taken away; the...
But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ. Parenthetical: of Christians in ge...
This chapter is closely connected with what goes before, and carries on the vindication of the Apostle's conduct.
Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord. — Better, But when it shall turn. The allegorising process is still carried on. Moses removed the veil when he went into the tabernacle to commune wit...
Chapter 10 THE TRANSFIGURING SPIRIT 2 Corinthians 3:12-18 (R.V) THE "hope" which here explains the Apostle's freedom of speech is to all intents and purposes the same as the "confidence" in 2...
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...
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...
(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...
Nevertheless, when it shall turn to the Lord ,.... The heart, upon which the veil now is; or the body of the Jewish nation, as in the latter day; when they "shall turn", or "be turned", by the Spiri...
Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away. Ver. 16. When it shall turn ] Of the Jews' conversion, and what hinders it. See Trapp on " Rom 11:7 " See Trapp on...
Seeing then Upon these grounds spoken of from 2 Corinthians 3:5-11 ; that we have such hope Such confidence of the excellence of our ministry, or such an assurance that the gospel excels the law...
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...
Superiority of the Gospel. A. D. 57. 12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great pla...
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 converte...
‘But whenever it shall turn to the Lord, the veil is taken away.' Here we have to interpret ‘it'. So, it could mean ‘but whenever the heart (referring back to 2 Corinthians 3:15 ) of a man turns to...
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 3:12-18 Mirrors of Christ. I. Note first what St. Paul means when he speaks of why Moses put the veil upon his face. You think it was because it was too bright that he did so. Not a...
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...
Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech The duty of outspokenness on religious questions True religion is very simple and very deep. A s simple as this statement,...
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...
The effect of the two ministries:
Deuteronomy 30:10 ; Deuteronomy 4:30 ; Exodus 34:34 ; Hosea 3:4 ; Hosea 3:5 ; Isaiah 25:7 ; Isaiah 29:18 ; Isaiah 54:13 ; Jeremiah 31:34 ; John 6:45 ; John 6:46 ; Lamentations 3:40 ; Rom...
When it — Their heart. Shall turn to the Lord — To Christ, by living faith. The veil is taken away — That very moment; and they see, with the utmost clearness, how all the types and prophecies of t...