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2Co_3:8. The ministry dedicated to the Holy Spirit, i.e. forming the medium of His operation (the teaching ministry of the gospel), is as such the specific opposite of the διακονία τοῦ θανάτου ἐν γράμμασιν ἐντετυπ . λίθοις , 2Co_3:7. In τοῦ πνεύματος are contained the elements of contrast. See 2Co_3:6.
ἔσται ] is not the future of the inference (Billroth, Hofmann, and the older commentators); nor does it refer to the advancing steady development (Osiander), but rather to the gloria futuri seculi. Comp. on 2Co_3:12, where the δόξα —which is therefore not to be understood, as it usually is, of inner elevation and dignity—appears as the object of the ἐλπίς . We cannot therefore say with Bengel: “loquitur ex prospectu V. T. in Novum,” but: loquitur ex prospectu praesentis seculi in futurum.