Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Corinthians 3:12

12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech .

Hope here signifieth nothing but a confident, certain expectation of something that is hereafter to come to pass. The term [such] referreth to something which went before; the sense is, We being in a certain confident expectation, that our Ministration of the Gospel shall not cease, as the Ministration of the Law hath done; and that the Doctrine of the Gospel brings in not a temporary, but an everlasting Righteousness; that there shall never be any Righteousness revealed, wherein any Soul can stand righteous before God, but that which is revealed in the Gospel to be from faith to faith; we are neither ashamed, nor afraid to preach the Gospel with all freedom and boldness. We do not, as Moses, cover our selves with a Veil when we preach the Gospel to people, but we speak what God hath given to us in Commission to speak, unconcernedly as to any terrours or affrightments from men: we know, that great is the Truth which we preach; and that it shall prevail and out-live all the rage and madness of the Enemies of it.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 word] 6.19.; [illegible: 1 paragraph]