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A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Second Epistle of St Paul to the Corinthians is unavailable, but you can change that!

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between letter and spirit, between compulsion and inspiration; that is the main fact. How far St Paul thinks of the Spirit as a power distinct from Christ is not clear; at any rate Christ and the Spirit work in the same way and produce the same effects. See on 1 Cor. 2:12. The two verses have a rhythm and swing, the balance of which is easily felt in reading aloud. ὁ δὲ Κύριος τὸ πνεῦμά ἐστιν. οὗ δὲ τὸ πνεῦμα Κυρίου, ἐλευθερία. ἡμεῖς δὲ πάντες ἀνακεκαλυμμένῳ προσώπῳ τὴν δόξαν
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