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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| Historical References, Commentary and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). |
| "The
Two-Fold Use of Law and Gospel: "Letter" and "Spirit," by
Martin Luther.
 | "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." |
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| 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." |
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| 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." |
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| 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." |
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| 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." |
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| 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." |
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| Contemporary Commentary, Studies and Exegesis:
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"Servants of the
New Covenant," Rev. Bryan Findlayson, Lectionary Bible
Studies and Sermons, Pumpkin Cottage Ministry Resources. Includes detailed
textual notes. |
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| 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. |
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"The Search for an Evangelical consensus on Paul and the Law," Mark W
Karlberg, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 1997. |
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"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.
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"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." |
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| "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." |
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| Articles in
ATLAS Journals. (Direct link when you are
subscribed and logged in to
ATLASerials online collection of Religion and Theology Journals.):
| Duff, Paul B.,
"Glory in the Ministry of Death: Gentile Condemnation and Letters of
Recommendation in 2 Cor. 3:6-18," Novum Testamentum, 2004. |
| Gleason, Randall C.,
"Paul's Covenantal Contrasts in 2 Corinthians 3:1-11," Bibliotheca
Sacra, 1997. |
| 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. |
| Hafemann, Scott,
"Paul's Use of the Old Testament in 2 Corinthians," Interpretation,
1998. |
| Pederson, Sigfred,
"Paul's Understanding of the Biblical Law," Novum Testamentum,
2002. |
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