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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God’s Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

The words this treasure refer to the gospel and the task of proclaiming the good news about Jesus Christ. TEV makes explicit the nature of this treasure by adding the word “spiritual.” Earthen vessels: this is figurative language in which the human body in its weakness and human limitations is compared to fragile “clay pots.” As TEV makes clear, “we … are like common clay pots.” The word translated earthen is found also in 2 Tim 2:20 in the description of ordinary containers as contrasted with those
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