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The Light of Christ’s Gospel

1 Therefore, since we have this ministry, aas we have received mercy, we bdo not lose heart.  
2 But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor1 handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth acommending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.  
3 But even if our gospel is veiled, ait is veiled to those who are perishing,  
4 whose minds athe god of this age bhas blinded, who do not believe, lest cthe light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, dwho is the image of God, should shine on them.  
5 aFor we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and bourselves your bondservants for Jesus’ sake.  
6 For it is the God awho commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has bshone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.  

Cast Down but Unconquered

7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, athat the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.  
8 We are ahard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;  
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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2 Corinthians 4:3

But if our Gospel be hid - · Veiled; he refers to the subject that he had treated so particularly in the conclusion of the preceding chapter. If there be a veil on the Gospel, it is only to the wilfully blind; and if any man' s heart be veiled that hears this Gospel, it is a proof that he is among the lost, , those who are fully under the power of sin; who have given up themselves to work wickedness; persons who are mere heathens, or live like such, and yet such as Jesus Christ came to seek and save; for the word does not necessarily imply those that will perish eternally, but is a common epithet to point out a man without the Gospel and without God in the world. Christ commands his disciples in preaching the Gospel to go to , the Lost sheep of the house of Israel; Matthew 10:6; for himself says, Matthew 18:11, and Luke 19:10 : The Son of man is come , to seek and to Save that which is Lost. And such persons he represents under the parable of the lost sheep; for to find , that which is Lost, the good shepherd leaves the ninety-and-nine in the wilderness, and goes in search of it; Matthew 18:12; Luke 15:4. The word more properly signifies, in all those connections, and in the parallel passages, not those who Are Lost, but those who are perishing; and will perish, if not sought and saved.


 
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