Oleksandr Zhabenko

🇬🇧 Glory be to Jesus Christ! 🌞

Dedicated to Emma Kok.

(2 Corinthians III, 4-11)

2 Corinthians III,4 – ‘πεποιθησιν’ - ‘pepoithesin’ – ‘confidence, trust, boldness’.

2 Corinthians III,5 – ‘ημων’ – ‘emon’ – ‘us’ (our).

2 Corinthians III,6 – ‘ημας’ – ‘emas’ – (made) ‘us’.

A continuation of the previous readings, the last of which I wrote about here:
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Paul testifies that the ability to be Christ’s letter of trust is not received by the apostles and all truly faithful Christians through thoughts of themselves, but from God as the Source. This implies a stronger statement that people’s true ability to be God’s servants is not determined by their own assessment of whether they are, but by God through His gift.

Paul goes on to compare the Old and New Testament ministries through the image of the letter and the Spirit. By the Spirit, we must understand the Holy Spirit, the Creator of life, the Lord, and the words in the Creed is the quote from here.

The image will become clearer the more we think about the properties of letters and the Holy Spirit. Letters are written, they are material, and they are humans’, they are obvious and understandable to some, and incomprehensible to others, and so on. But the Holy Spirit is Life-giving (gives life, makes alive), He is immaterial to the highest degree, spiritual, at the same time as He created matter with the Father and the Son, He is the meaning of cognition of God (in particular through Scripture), because this cognition is carried out through Him, in Him and for Him (not only for Him alone, but also for the Father and the Son), He also gives other gifts.

Since the letter is inanimate, the service of the letter does not give life, does not save, and is intended to put to death sin without having the full power to do so. In this regard, it is called the ministry of death.

But the ministry of the letter, of the Old Testament, has its own significance, which Paul does not elaborate on here, and which is discussed in detail in his other epistles. It is worth recalling, but I will not dwell on it here. To recall it, you can look at the following link:
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Paul testifies that the service of the Spirit is far more glorious. Indeed, the glory of God can be seen much more clearly in the New Testament than in the Old, and this applies to almost everything.

(Matthew XXIII, 29-39)

Matthew XXIII, 30 – ‘ημεθα’ – ‘emetha’ - ‘would live’. ‘ημεραις’ – ‘emerais’ – ‘days’. ‘ημων’ – ‘emon’ – ‘us’ (ours).

Matthew XXIII, 37 – ‘ηθελησα’ – ‘ethelesa’ – (I) ‘wanted’.

Continuation of yesterday’s reading, exposing the hypocrisy of the Pharisees and scribes.
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I wrote earlier, see the link (and others quoted there):
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Glory be to Thee, our God, glory be to Thee!

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