From 2 Corinthians 3:
17. Now the Lord [= Christ or Yahweh] continuously exists being the Spirit (or: Yet the Breath-effect is the Lord), so where [the] Lord's Breath-effect (Spirit) [blows, there is] freedom (or: and so in the place in which the Breath-effect – the Spirit – which is [the] Lord [= Christ or Yahweh] [blows], liberty [comes]).
18. Now we, ourselves, all – having a face that has been uncovered and remains unveiled [note: as with Moses, before the Lord, Ex. 34:34] – being folks who by a mirror are continuously observing, as ourselves, the Lord's [= Yahweh's or Christ's] glory (or: being those who progressively reflect – from ourselves as by a mirror – the glory of [our] Owner), are presently being continuously and progressively transformed into the very same image, from glory into glory – in accord with and exactly as – from [the] Lord's Breath-effect (or: from [the] Spirit of [the] Lord [= Christ or Yahweh]).
[comment: considering the context of this
chapter, this may refer to the transformation
from glory of Moses, into the glory of Christ; or,
it may be speaking of a from time to time
transfiguration from the glory of humanity into
the glory of the Anointing, on an individual
basis]
From 2 Corinthians 5:
14. for you see, Christ's love continuously holds us together.
[We are] deciding (discerning; judging) this: that [some MSS add: since] One Person (or: Man) died over [the situation of] all mankind (or: for the sake of all); consequently all died (or: accordingly, then, all humanity died).
15. And further, He died over all humanity (over [the situation] of, and for the sake of all) to the end that those living may (or: could; would) no longer live for themselves (to themselves; in themselves; by themselves), but rather for (or: in; by; to; with) the One dying and then being awakened and raised up over them (over their [situation]; for their sakes),
16. so that we, from the present moment (or: from now) [on], have seen and thus know (or: perceive; or: are acquainted [with]) no one on the level of (or: in the sphere of; in correspondence to) flesh (= the estranged human nature; = the self enslaved to the System), if even we have intimately, by experience, known Christ ([the] Anointed One) on the level of flesh (or: = in the sphere of estranged humanity; or: = in correspondence to a self oriented to the System), nevertheless we now (in the present moment) no longer continue [thus] knowing [Him or anyone].
17. Consequently, since someone [is] within Christ (or: if anyone [is] in union with [the] Anointed One), [there is] a new creation (or: [it is] a framing and founding of a different kind; [he or she is] an act of creation having a fresh character and a new quality): the original things (the beginning [situations]; the archaic and primitive [arrangements]) passed by (or: went to the side). Consider! New things have come into existence (have been birthed; or: It has become new things; or: He has been birthed and now exists being ones of a different kind, character and quality).
18. Yet further, all these things [are] (or: the Whole [is]) forth from out of the midst of God – the One transforming us down to be other [than we were]
(or: bringing us down into another place or
state of being; changing us to correspond
with other [perceptions and conceptions];
altering us down to be another [person];
changing us from enmity to friendship;
reconciling us) in Himself (or: with Himself; by Himself; to Himself; for Himself), through Christ, and giving to us the attending service of the transformation [for folks] to be other [than before]
(or: the lowering into another [position]; the
changing to correspond with other [situations;
perceptions]; the alteration to be another
[person]; the change from enmity to
friendship; the reconciliation),
19. as that God was existing within Christ (God was and continued being in union with [the] Anointed One) continuously transforming [the] world down to be other [than it is]
(or: progressively bringing [the] ordered System
down into another [state]; repeatedly changing
[the] universe to correspond with other
[conditions; perceptions]; progressively altering
[the] ordered arrangement of culture, religions,
economy and government down to be another
one; habitually and progressively changing [the]
world [of humanity] from enmity to friendship;
reconciling [the] world [of mankind]) in Himself, to Himself, for Himself and by Himself, not accounting to them (not putting to their account; not logically considering for them; not reasoning in them) their falls to the side (their trespasses; their offences), even placing within us the Word (the Idea; the Reason; the message) of the corresponding transformation (or: the full alteration; the change from enmity to friendship; the conciliation).
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