2 Corinthians 3
1 Doe we begin to praise our selues againe? or neede we as some other, epistles of recommendation vnto you, or letters of recommendation from you?
vayaṁ kim ātmapraśaṁsanaṁ punarārabhāmahe? yuṣmān prati yuṣmatto vā pareṣāṁ keṣāñcid ivāsmākamapi kiṁ praśaṁsāpatreṣu prayojanam āste?
2 Yee are our epistle, written in our hearts, which is vnderstand, and read of all men,
yūyamevāsmākaṁ praśaṁsāpatraṁ taccāsmākam antaḥkaraṇeṣu likhitaṁ sarvvamānavaiśca jñeyaṁ paṭhanīyañca|
3 In that yee are manifest, to be the Epistle of Christ, ministred by vs, and written, not with yncke, but with the Spirite of the liuing God, not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart.
yato 'smābhiḥ sevitaṁ khrīṣṭasya patraṁ yūyapeva, tacca na masyā kintvamarasyeśvarasyātmanā likhitaṁ pāṣāṇapatreṣu tannahi kintu kravyamayeṣu hṛtpatreṣu likhitamiti suspaṣṭaṁ|
4 And such trust haue we through Christ to God:
khrīṣṭeneśvaraṁ pratyasmākam īdṛśo dṛḍhaviśvāso vidyate;
5 Not that we are sufficient of our selues, to thinke any thing, as of our selues: but our sufficiencie is of God,
vayaṁ nijaguṇena kimapi kalpayituṁ samarthā iti nahi kintvīśvarādasmākaṁ sāmarthyaṁ jāyate|
6 Who also hath made vs able ministers of the Newe testament, not of the letter, but of the Spirite: for the letter killeth, but the Spirite giueth life.
tena vayaṁ nūtananiyamasyārthato 'kṣarasaṁsthānasya tannahi kintvātmana eva sevanasāmarthyaṁ prāptāḥ| akṣarasaṁsthānaṁ mṛtyujanakaṁ kintvātmā jīvanadāyakaḥ|
7 If then the ministration of death written with letters and ingrauen in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel coulde not beholde the face of Moses, for the glorie of his countenance (which glorie is done away.)
akṣarai rvilikhitapāṣāṇarūpiṇī yā mṛtyoḥ sevā sā yadīdṛk tejasvinī jātā yattasyācirasthāyinastejasaḥ kāraṇāt mūsaso mukham isrāyelīyalokaiḥ saṁdraṣṭuṁ nāśakyata,
8 Howe shall not the ministration of the Spirite be more glorious?
tarhyātmanaḥ sevā kiṁ tato'pi bahutejasvinī na bhavet?
9 For if the ministerie of condemnation was glorious, much more doeth the ministration of righteousnesse exceede in glorie.
daṇḍajanikā sevā yadi tejoyuktā bhavet tarhi puṇyajanikā sevā tato'dhikaṁ bahutejoyuktā bhaviṣyati|
10 For euen that which was glorified, was not glorified in this point, that is, as touching the exceeding glorie.
ubhayostulanāyāṁ kṛtāyām ekasyāstejo dvitīyāyāḥ prakharatareṇa tejasā hīnatejo bhavati|
11 For if that which should be abolished, was glorious, much more shall that which remaineth, be glorious.
yasmād yat lopanīyaṁ tad yadi tejoyuktaṁ bhavet tarhi yat cirasthāyi tad bahutaratejoyuktameva bhaviṣyati|
12 Seeing then that we haue such trust, we vse great boldnesse of speach.
īdṛśīṁ pratyāśāṁ labdhvā vayaṁ mahatīṁ pragalbhatāṁ prakāśayāmaḥ|
13 And we are not as Moses, which put a vaile vpon his face, that the children of Israel should not looke vnto the ende of that which should be abolished.
isrāyelīyalokā yat tasya lopanīyasya tejasaḥ śeṣaṁ na vilokayeyustadarthaṁ mūsā yādṛg āvaraṇena svamukham ācchādayat vayaṁ tādṛk na kurmmaḥ|
14 Therefore their mindes are hardened: for vntill this day remaineth the same couering vntaken away in the reading of the olde Testament, which vaile in Christ is put away.
teṣāṁ manāṁsi kaṭhinībhūtāni yatasteṣāṁ paṭhanasamaye sa purātano niyamastenāvaraṇenādyāpi pracchannastiṣṭhati|
15 But euen vnto this day, whe Moses is read, the vaile is laid ouer their hearts.
tacca na dūrībhavati yataḥ khrīṣṭenaiva tat lupyate| mūsasaḥ śāstrasya pāṭhasamaye'dyāpi teṣāṁ manāṁsi tenāvaraṇena pracchādyante|
16 Neuertheles when their heart shall be turned to the Lord, the vaile shalbe taken away.
kintu prabhuṁ prati manasi parāvṛtte tad āvaraṇaṁ dūrīkāriṣyate|
17 Nowe the Lord is the Spirite, and where the Spirite of the Lord is, there is libertie.
yaḥ prabhuḥ sa eva sa ātmā yatra ca prabhorātmā tatraiva muktiḥ|
18 But we al behold as in a mirrour the glory of the Lord with open face, and are changed into the same image, from glorie to glorie, as by the Spirit of the Lord.
vayañca sarvve'nācchāditenāsyena prabhostejasaḥ pratibimbaṁ gṛhlanta ātmasvarūpeṇa prabhunā rūpāntarīkṛtā varddhamānatejoyuktāṁ tāmeva pratimūrttiṁ prāpnumaḥ|
