 | 1841 - 472 pages
...we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God, who also hath made us able ministers of the New Testament...the spirit ; for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life " (2 Cor. iii. 5, 6). Compare also what follows the text, in ver. 16, with what we have... | |
 | Elisha Bates - 1826 - 324 pages
...are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God : who also hath made us able ministers of the New Testament...the Spirit; for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life." 2 Cor. iii. 5, 6. , Thus the ministry was constituted in the beginning, under the highest... | |
 | William Jones, William Stevens - 1826 - 526 pages
...together, for the edification of the people. " Our sufficiency " (saith the apostle) is of God, who hath made us " able ministers of the new testament,...the spirit: for the letter killeth, but " the spirit giveth life." The letter of the law, voided of its evangelical intention, leaves our bodies washed,... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1826 - 412 pages
...shall there find the apostle expressly declaring that the Mosaic dispensation is wholly done away. " But if the ministration of death, written and engraven...glorious so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the gloryiof his" countenance, which glc ry was to be done... | |
 | John Owen - 1826 - 640 pages
...can no way vie for glory with the old worship of the temple. So the apostle, 2 Cor. iii. 7 — 11. ' If the ministration of death, written and engraven...glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance ; which glory was to be done... | |
 | John Owen - 1826 - 600 pages
...old tabernacle and temple worship, which yet was exceeding pompous and glorious. ' If,' saith he, ' the ministration of death, written and engraven in...glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance, which glory was to be done away... | |
 | Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (1802-1822) - 1827 - 522 pages
...should seek the law at his mouth : for he is the messenger of. the Lord of hosts. 2 Cor. iii. C. Who also hath made us able ministers of the New Testament,...the spirit : for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. I Jer. xiv. 15. Therefore, thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that prophecy in... | |
 | John Platts - 1827 - 572 pages
...LORD had showed Moses, so he made the candlestick. See on ACTS, vii. 44. h 2 COR. iii. 6, 8, 9 : Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament...the spirit : for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious ? For if the ministration... | |
 | 1827 - 524 pages
...are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God; who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament,...the spirit ; for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that... | |
 | Henry Tuke - 1827 - 194 pages
...likewise by this Spirit, that those who are called to the sacred office of gospel ministry, are "made able ministers of the New Testament; not of the letter,...the Spirit; for the letter killeth, but the Spirit givcth life."t In addition to these clear and forcible declarations, it may be proper to remark, that... | |
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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. 
