vail
Omit the word italicized "vail".
But their minds were blinded - The word used here ( πωρόω pōroō) means rather to harden; to make hard like stone; and then to make dull or...
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 w...
minds . thoughts. Greek. noema. See 2 Corinthians 2:11 . blinded . hardened. Greek. poroo. Sea Romans 11:7 ; Romans 11:26 (poroeis). t...
14. Their understandings were blinded. He lays the whole blame upon them, inasmuch as it was owing to their blindness, that they did not...
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...
Untaken away—which vail is done away in Christ.— Not discovered that in Christ it is done away. Castalio. Not uncovered, because in Christ [ on...
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 awa...
This chapter is closely connected with what goes before, and carries on the vindication of the Apostle's conduct.
Paraphrase. 'Since our hopes of the future of the gospel are so great, we speak frankly and boldly. (13) We do not seek to conceal anything as Mose...
Blinded] RV 'hardened.' The same vail ] Note the quick transition from history to allegory. The veil with which Moses covered his face to keep the...
But their minds were blinded. — The Greek verb expresses strictly the callousness of a nerve that has become insensible, as in Mark 6:52 ; Mark 8...
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 inten...
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 G...
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...
(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 f...
OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES ‘But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the Old Testamen...
But their minds were blinded ,.... This confirms the sense given of the foregoing verse, and shows, that not the Israelites only in Moses's time, bu...
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, o...
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 ne...
Superiority of the Gospel. A. D. 57. 12 Se...
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 T...
Consideration of the Consequences of the Difference In the Two Covenants ( 2 Corinthians 3:12-18 ) ‘Having therefore such a hope, we use great bol...
CRITICAL NOTES N.B. A continuous outpour of argument and appeal, all “alive,” and quivering, thrilling, with quick emotion, from 2 Corinthian...
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 w...
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 c...
Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech The duty of outspokenness on religious questions True religion is very si...
EXPOSITION Defence against the charge of self-recommendation, which St. Paul does not need ( 2 Corinthians 3:1-47 ). His sufficiency comes from...
The effect of the two ministries:
But their minds were blinded; for until this day remaineth the same veil untaken away in the reading of the Old Testament; which veil is done away i...
2 Corinthians 4:3 ; 2 Corinthians 4:4 ; 2 Corinthians 4:6 ; Acts 16:14 ; Acts 26:18 ; Acts 28:26 ; Acts 28:27 ; Ephesians 1:17-20 ; Ezekiel...
The same veil remaineth on their understanding unremoved — Not so much as folded back, (so the word implies,) so as to admit a little, glimmering l...
14 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.