SEV Biblia, Chapter 3:8
¿Cómo no será para mayor gloria el ministerio del Espíritu?
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 3:8
Verse 8. The ministration of the Spirit] The Gospel dispensation, which gives the true spiritual sense of the law. Be rather glorious?] Forasmuch as the thing signified is of infinitely more consequence than that by which it is signified. The THING bread will preserve a man alive; the WORD bread can give life to nothing.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-11 - Even the appearance of self-praise and courting human applause, is painful to the humble and spiritual mind. Nothing is more delightful to faithful ministers, or more to their praise, than the success of their ministry, as shown in the spirits and lives of those among whom the labour. The law of Christ was written in their hearts, and the love of Christ shed abroad there. Nor was it written in tables of stone, as the law of God given to Moses, but on the fleshy (not fleshly, a fleshliness denotes sensuality) tables of the heart, Eze 36:26. Their hearts were humbled and softened to receive this impression, by the new-creating power of the Holy Spirit. He ascribes all the glory to God. And remember, as our whole dependence is upon the Lord, so the whole glory belongs to him alone. The letter killeth: the letter of the law is the ministration of death; and if we rest only in the letter of the gospel, we shall not be the better for so doing: but the Holy Spirit gives life spiritual, and life eternal. The Old Testamen dispensation was the ministration of death, but the New Testament of life. The law made known sin, and the wrath and curse of God; it showe us a God above us, and a God against us; but the gospel makes know grace, and Emmanuel, God with us. Therein the righteousness of God by faith is revealed; and this shows us that the just shall live by his faith; this makes known the grace and mercy of God through Jesu Christ, for obtaining the forgiveness of sins and eternal life. The gospel so much exceeds the law in glory, that it eclipses the glory of the legal dispensation. But even the New Testament will be a killin letter, if shown as a mere system or form, and without dependence of God the Holy Spirit, to give it a quickening power.
Greek Textus Receptus
πως 4459 ADV-I ουχι 3780 PRT-I μαλλον 3123 ADV η 3588 T-NSF διακονια 1248 N-NSF του 3588 T-GSN πνευματος 4151 N-GSN εσται 2071 5704 V-FXI-3S εν 1722 PREP δοξη 1391 N-DSF
Vincent's NT Word Studies
8. Glorious (en doxh). As in ver. 7, with glory.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
3:8 {How shall not rather?} (pws ouci mallon?). _Argumentum a minore ad majus_ (from the less to the greater). {Of the spirit} (tou pneumatos). Marked by the spirit. Picture of the Christian ministry now.
