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In this you yourselves are witnesses, since we are not 2Cor.3:1. Let's start introducing ourselves to you again (we have no need) or ask from others messages (representative) to you. 2Cor.3:2. But your message you yourself are, as if written in our hearts... through knowledge and with wisdom read through us by all people. 2Cor.3:3. You show yourself and certify that you are a message... of nature... of Christ, For by your works Christ is proclaimed as if out of a book, that is, through our preaching, written (the message of Christ) not with ink or on tablets of stone... but by the Spirit and on... tablets... of the heart of cloth. 2Cor.3:4. Confidence... we have the same... through Christ... in God, 2Cor.3:5. - not because... we are capable... of thinking on our own, but since wisdom is given to us from God who made us 2Cor.3:6. to be worthy servants of the New Testament, not by the letter of Moses, but by the Spirit, that is, it is proclaimed through the actions of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life, that is, the Gospel saves people through long-suffering, granting them forgiveness. 2Cor.3:7. If the service of death, - for it killed with its truth, that is, the ministry written and inscribed (by Moses) on tablets of stone - received such terrible power, precisely the one endowed with which Moses, who carried it, ascended (Ex. 34:29), 2Cor.3:8. then how much more... the ministry of the Spirit will be in glory, when is it much higher than the first? 2 Corinthians 3:9. For if the ministry of condemnation was in glory, how much more will the ministry of righteousness flourish in glory? that is, the ministry of grace? 8 2Cor.3:10. For it does not turn out to be glorious... even... that which is glorified in this regard because of its superior glory, that is, the glory that the apostles received, the glory that was given when the law was communicated is considered nothing. 2 Corinthians 3:11. If after all (for) abolished and transitory, that is, the law which passed away, and Moses which was abolished, (although) through slav u (in glory) appeared, then how much more is that which has to remain after the eternal resurrection, it will abound 2 Corinthians 3:12. So, having such hope Therefore we use great boldness, that is, we act openly. 2Cor.3:13. And we have no need to appear like Moses, who put a veil on his face, so that the children of Israel could not look... on the face of Moses, at the end of it, which should have been abolished. 2 Corinthians 3:14. Because their thoughts were darkened, and they could not see the sacraments that were in the law, for to this day I, when they read the Old Testament, stretched between the face of Moses and their eyes, the same veil was stretched between the letter of Moses and their minds. That is why they do not see what must be abolished through Christ, that is, be accomplished. 2Cor.3:15. But... to this day, when... they read Moses. The Old Testament is named after the servant, just as other scriptures are named after the prophets whose prophetic speeches they contain. So, since the writings of Moses are equalized with the writings of his companions, the prophets, the promise of the Son is thereby exalted above the promises of the prophets, and the Gospel of the Lord above the preaching of the servants. When, he says, they read Moses, that is, the books of Moses, their hearts are covered with a dark veil instead of a light veil. 2 Corinthians 3:16. And it will be removed from their eyes when they turn to the Lord. Just as Moses, when he turned his gaze to God, removed the veil from his face, so it will be removed from their minds when they turn to faith in the Lord. 2Cor.3:17. For the Lord... the Holy Spirit is that is, it is not located and is not confined in one place, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom, that is, it is characteristic of His (the Spirit’s) freedom that He should be in every place where the Lord will be. 2 Corinthians 3:18. We all have an open face, which is not covered, like the face of Moses, the hidden glory of God, as if contemplating in a mirror, we are transformed into the same image, that is, we expect to perceive with hope - namely, from the glory lost in paradise to the glory that we have to receive in the Kingdom of Heaven - just as from the Lord and (Lord's) Spirit, Who, by His actions, already testifies to what we are talking about. Interrogative sentence and in sire. (Valt.): “How much more?” You might be interested in: