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**Verse 1**
*This ministry;* the charge of the new and glorious dispensation referred to in the [2 Corinthians 3:4-18](../../../kjv/2-corinthians/3/4-18).

**Verse 3**
*Is hid;* remains unknown; is not received.

**Verse 7**
*Earthen vessels;* it is committed to an obscure and unworthy instrumentality.--*May be of God;* may appear evidently to be of God.

**Verse 10**
*Bearing about in the body,* &c.; continually exemplifying in our lives that endurance of suffering which characterized the life of the Savior. The word *dying* is put for *suffering,* in antithesis to the word *life.* Cases of this kind often occur among the sacred writers, where words are used in one or the other of the parallel clauses of a sentence, with some latitude of meaning, in order to preserve a contrast of expression in the two clauses. For examples, see the word *hate,* in and in [Romans 9:13](../../../kjv/romans/9/13).

**Verse 11**
*Delivered unto death;* exposed to death.

**Verse 12**
The meaning is, we give ourselves up to the power and dominion of death, that spiritual life may be bestowed upon you.

**Verse 13**
*The same--according as it is written;* that is, the same spirit with that referred to in the passage in which it is written, &c. ([Psalms 116:10](../../../kjv/psalms/116/10).)

**Verse 15**
*Of many;* of the many saved by it.

**Verse 16**
*We faint not,* we are not discouraged.--*Our outward man;* that which pertains to present and temporal welfare.--*The inward man;* the soul, in respect to its spiritual interests.

**Verse 17**
*Light affliction;* light in comparison with the glory which shall follow.

**Verse 18**
*We look not at;* we do not regard.--*The things which are seen;* the things relating to this life, that is, the sufferings of which he had been speaking.

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