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2Co 3:6. Καὶ, also) An emphatic addition [to the previous assertion. Epitasis. Append.] He has given sufficiency to us, even the sufficiency of ministers of the New Testament, which demands much more in order to realize it [than ordinary sufficiency].-ἡμᾶς διακόνους, us ministers) Apposition.-καινῆς, new) An antithesis to old, 2Co 3:14.-οὐ, not) of the New Testament, i.e., not of the letter, but of the spirit, see Rom 7:6, and the following verses, with the annot.-γράμματος, of the letter) Even while Paul wrote these things, he was the minister not of the letter, but of the spirit. Moses in that his peculiar office, even when he did not write, was yet employed about the letter.-πνεύματος, of the Spirit) whose ministry has both greater glory, and requires greater ability [sufficiency].-ἀποκτείνει, kills): the letter rouses the sinner to a sense of death; for if the sinner had life, before the letter came, there would have been no need of quickening by the Spirit. With this comp. the following verse, of death.