11For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: …
(For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:) …
Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-11)Here the apostle makes a comparison between the Old Testament and the New, the law of Moses and the gospel of Jesus Christ, and values himself and his fellow-labourers by this, that they were able ministers of the New Testament , that God had made them so, 2 Cor. 3:6. This he does in answer to the accusations of false teachers, who magnify greatly the law of Moses. I. He distinguishes between the…
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