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But when he says in the next clause, "And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty," he speaks of the Holy Ghost because he is now speaking of the power by which Christ glorified is apprehended, and the liberty into which we are consequently brought. In other words, he teaches us that the Spirit that runs through and underlies "the letter" is a glorified Christ. not the Holy Spirit, but the Spirit of the "New Testament," which he thus identifies with the Lord - the glorified Christ. 5, 6) and then he adds, "Now the Lord is that Spirit" (v. Thus the apostle says, "Our sufficiency is of God 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" (vv.
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5, 6.) We have then a parenthesis which extends to the close of the 16th verse so that for the connection we must read the 17th verse after the 6th, though it is evident that the parenthetical passage contributes, by the contrast therein drawn between the "ministry of condemnation" and the "ministry of righteousness," to further the general argument. 14), the apostle points out the source of his qualification for his work, and the character of his ministry. After speaking of his own special relationship, through his ministry, to the believers at Corinth (vv. We have a remarkable series of contrasts in the third chapter of this epistle, designed to exhibit the perfect place of blessing in which we are set in Christ.