to whom you have pardoned any thing, I also. For, what I have
pardoned, if I have pardoned any thing, for your sakes have I done it in
the person of Christ:

I also... The apostle here granted an indulgence, or pardon, in the
person and by the authority of Christ, to the incestuous Corinthian,
whom before he had put under penance, which pardon consisted in a
releasing of part of the temporal punishment due to his sin.

2:11. That we be not overreached by Satan. For we are not ignorant of
his devices.

2:12. And when I was come to Troas for the gospel of Christ and a door
was opened unto me in the Lord,

2:13. I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother:
but bidding them farewell, I went into Macedonia.

2:14. Now thanks be to God, who always maketh us to triumph in Christ
Jesus and manifesteth the odour of his knowledge by us in every place.

2:15. For we are the good odour of Christ unto God, in them that are
saved and in them that perish.

2:16. To the one indeed the odour of death unto death: but to the others
the odour of life unto life. And for these things who is so sufficient?

The odour of death, etc... The preaching of the apostle, which by its
fragrant odour, brought many to life, was to others, through their own
fault, the occasion of death; by their wilfully opposing and resisting
that divine call.

2:17. For we are not as many, adulterating the word of God: but with
sincerity: but as from God, before God, in Christ we speak.

2 Corinthians Chapter 3

He needs no commendatory letters. The glory of the ministry of the New
Testament.

3:1. Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need (as some do)
epistles of commendation to you, or from you?

3:2. You are our epistle, written in our hearts, which is known and read
by all men:

3:3. Being manifested, that you are the epistle of Christ, ministered by
us, and written: not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God: not
in tables of stone but in the fleshly tables of the heart.

3:4. And such confidence we have, through Christ, towards God.

3:5. Not that we are sufficient to think any thing of ourselves, as of
ourselves: but our sufficiency is from God.

3:6. Who also hath made us fit ministers of the new testament, not in
the letter but in the spirit. For the letter killeth: but the spirit
quickeneth.

The letter... Not rightly understood, and taken without the spirit.

3:7. Now if the ministration of de