2 Corinthians 3:10

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

Related Commentaries of 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...
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 w...
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 her...
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...
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 stone...
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 - Th...
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. Pa...
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 condem...
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.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Paraphrase. 'Now if the system which could only declare the sentence of death upon sin was glorious (and glorious it was, for at its giving the ver...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

That excelleth ] The glory of the Law is completely eclipsed by that of the Gospel, which offers forgiveness instead of condemnation.
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...
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...
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 G...
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...
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 f...
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 glori...
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 aut...
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, a...
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 compariso...
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 ne...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Law and Gospel Compared. A. D. 57. 6 Who a...
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...
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 pass...
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 Corinthian...
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 c...
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 conde...
The Biblical Illustrator

For if the ministration of condemnation be glory. Condemnation and righteousness here replace death and life, because it is through condemnatio...
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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The glory of the ministry of righteousness:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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

¹⁰ For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.

Related Commentaries of 2 Corinthians 3:10

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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