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Frank Matera provides a commentary on II Corinthians in the New Testament Library, continuing the exemplary quality of the series. His work here is a close study of the backgrounds and language of the text while also providing important theological insights into the message of Paul for his time and for the contemporary church.

[17] In this verse Paul writes, “The Lord is the Spirit.” Although this has led some to identify Christ and the Spirit, and although some patristic writers understood the text to mean that the Spirit is the Lord, and so divine, Paul seems to be making a pesher-like comment (as he does in Rom 10:6–8) to explain who ho kyrios is in the text of Exodus. If this is so, then the text can be amplified in this way, “Now in this passage from Exodus, to which I have just alluded, ho kyrios stands for the Spirit
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