Второе послание к Коринфянам 3
1 Зачинаем ли паки нас самех извещавати вам? Или требуем, якоже нецыи, извещавательных посланий к вам, или от вас известительных?
Are we beginning to praise ourselves again? We do not need letters of recommendation to you or from you, like some people, do we?
2 Послание бо наше вы есте, написаное в сердцах наших, знаемое и прочитаемое от всех человек:
You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, known and read by all people.
3 являеми, яко есте послание Христово служеное нами, написано не чернилом, но Духом Бога жива, не на скрижалех каменных, но на скрижалех сердца плотяных.
You show that you are a letter from Christ, delivered by us. It was written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God. It was not written on tablets of stone, but on tablets of human hearts.
4 Надеяние же таково имамы Христом к Богу,
And this is the confidence that we have through Christ before God.
5 не яко довольни есмы от себе помыслити что, яко от себе, но доволство наше от Бога:
We are not competent in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us. Instead, our competence is from God.
6 иже и удоволи нас служители быти Нову Завету, не писмени, но духу: писмя бо убивает, а дух животворит.
It is God who made us able to be servants of a new covenant. This is a covenant not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
7 Аще ли служение смерти писмены, образовано в каменех, бысть в славу, яко не мощи взирати сыном Израилевым на лице Моисеово, славы ради лица его престающия.
Now the service that produced death—engraved in letters on stones—came in such glory that the people of Israel could not look directly at Moses' face. This is because of the glory of his face, a glory that was fading.
8 Како не множае паче служение духа будет в славе?
How much more glorious will be the service that the Spirit does?
9 Аще бо служение осуждения, слава, много паче избыточествует служение правды в славе.
For if the service of condemnation had glory, how much more does the service of righteousness abound in glory!
10 Ибо не прославися прославленное в части сей, за превосходящую славу.
For indeed, that which was once made glorious is no longer glorious in this respect, because of the glory that exceeds it.
11 Аще бо престающее, славою: много паче пребывающее, в славе.
For if that which was passing away had glory, how much more will what is permanent have glory!
12 Имуще убо таково упование, многим дерзновением действуем,
Since we have such a hope, we are very bold.
13 и не якоже Моисей полагаше покрывало на лицы своем, за еже не мощи взирати сыном Израилевым на конец престающаго.
We are not like Moses, who put a veil over his face, so that the people of Israel were not able to look directly at the ending of a glory that was passing away.
14 Но ослепишася помышления их: даже бо до сего дне тожде покрывало во чтении Ветхаго Завета пребывает не откровено, зане о Христе престает.
But their minds were closed. For to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains. It has not been removed, because only in Christ is it taken away.
15 Но даже до днесь, внегда чтется Моисей, покрывало на сердце их лежит:
But even today, whenever Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts.
16 внегда же обратятся ко Господу, взимается покрывало.
But when a person turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
17 Господь же Дух есть: а идеже Дух Господень, ту свобода.
Now the Lord is the Spirit. Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
18 Мы же вси откровенным лицем славу Господню взирающе, в тойже образ преобразуемся от славы в славу, якоже от Господня Духа.
Now all of us, with unveiled faces, see the glory of the Lord. We are being transformed into the same glorious likeness from one degree of glory into another, just as from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
