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Zenodo
2026
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19100210 |
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- <p>This study argues that 2 Corinthians 3 is not an anti-Torah manifesto but a new<br>covenant inscription text. The chapter must be read under explicit covenant<br>controls: Isa 8:20, Deut 30:6-10, Jer 31:31-33, and Ezek 36:26-27. Within that<br>horizon, the contrast between letter and Ruach, stone and heart, ministry of<br>death and ministry of life, does not place Torah on the side of error and Ruach<br>on the side of freedom-from-standard. It places external inscription over flesh<br>on the side of condemnation and inward inscription by Ruach on the side of life.<br>First Corinthians 7:19 and 9:21 function as internal Pauline controls: what<br>matters remains the keeping of Yehovah’s commandments, and Paul explicitly<br>denies Torahlessness toward Yehovah. The article therefore contends that<br>anti-Torah readings of 2 Corinthians 3 mistake a condemnatory relation for a<br>corrupt standard. Exodus 34, the veil, and Paul’s katargeō language do not<br>overturn that claim; they sharpen it. The issue is not Torah abolished, but<br>Torah encountered externally over hard-hearted flesh versus Torah carried<br>inwardly and lived from the heart by Ruach</p>