2 Coríntios 3
Theodoret of Cyrus · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
2 Coríntios 3:1
Paul is telling the Corinthians that they should have been commending him without any reminders of this kind. — COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 301
2 Coríntios 3:3
Forgetting the false teachers, Paul goes on to the heart of the matter and expounds the difference between the two Testaments. — COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 302
2 Coríntios 3:9
The law condemned sinners, but grace receives them and justifies them by faith. It leads them to holy baptism and grants them forgiveness of sins. — COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 303
2 Coríntios 3:10
The light of a lamp shines brightly in the darkness of the night, but at midday it is barely visible and is not even thought of as light. — COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 304
2 Coríntios 3:13
Paul says that the law was fading away, by which he means that it was coming to an end in Christ, whose coming was foretold by the law. — COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 305
2 Coríntios 3:16
The same is true for you as well. When you believe in Christ, the veil of your unbelief will be taken away. — COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 305
2 Coríntios 3:17
Paul shows here that the Spirit and God are equal. Moses turned his eyes toward God; we turn ours toward the Holy Spirit. Paul would hardly have said that what the Spirit reveals is greater than what Moses saw if the Spirit were merely a creature and not God himself. — COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 305-6