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2Co_3:9. Grounding, simply by a characteristic change of the predicates ( κατακρ . and δικαιοσύν .), of what was said in 2Co_3:7-8. Comp. Rom_5:18-19.
ἡ διακονία τῆς κατακρίσ .] the ministry, which is the medium of condemnation. For the ministry of Moses, which communicated the Decalogue, promoted through the law sin (Rom_7:9 ff.), whose power it became (1Co_15:56), and thus realized the divine curse against the transgressors of the law (Gal_3:20). Comp. on 2Co_3:6. The article denoted the well-known, solemn condemnation, Deu_27:26.
δόξα ] sc. ἐστί , for the former ἐγενήθη ἐν δόξῃ is realised as present, regarded as present. Comp., subsequently, the present περισσεύει . The substantive δόξα (it refers, as in 2Co_3:7, to that external glory) stands as predicate in the sense of ἔνδοξος , denoting the notion of the adjective more strongly, according to a current usage in Greek. Rom_8:10; Joh_6:63; 1Jn_4:8, al. See Abresch, Auctar. Diluc. p. 275 f.; Fritzsche, ad Rom. II. p. 120.
περισσεύει ] The tense realizes as present what is future; for the future glory of the teacher is already now an ideal possession. Note the accumulated strength of the expression: is in much higher degree superabundant in glory. On the dative of more precise definition with περισσεύειν , comp. 1Th_3:12; Act_16:5; Polyb. xviii. 5; Plut. Mor. p. 708 F. Usually in the N. T. with ἐν , as also here in Elzevi.
ἡ διακονία τῆς δικαιοσύν .] the ministry, which is the medium of righteousness[162] (comp. 2Co_11:15); for it is the office of gospel teaching to preach the faith in Jesus Christ, by which we have righteousness before God. See Rom_1:17; Rom_3:22 ff., Rom_3:30; Rom_10:4; Gal_3:13. Comp. especially, 2Co_5:21.
[162] Note the contrast of κατάκρισις and δικαιοσύνη . The former is an actus forensis; so also the latter, constituted by the divine act of the δικαίωσις (Rom_4:25; Rom_5:18), rests on imputation. Comp. 2Co_5:21. This in opposition to Hofmann, Schriftbew. I. p. 627 f.