Reading 2 Corinthians 3:4-18: An Exercise in Exegesis

Paul\u27s letters have a reading history of almost two millennia. It is a history of readings and misreadings, of grasping the general drift of the texts and of being puzzled when it comes down to the details. Readers have felt this ever since the New Testament era. Already in the first century Saint Peter writes that some things in Paul’s letters are hard to understand (2 Pet. 3:16)