“How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?”
Will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious? — the rhetorical move is clear: if the Law's ministry had glory, the Spirit's ministry has surpassing glory (hyperballontos). The new covenant transcends the old not by negating it but by fulfilling and surpassing it.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 3:8
But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly upon the face of Moses, for the glory of his face; which glory was passing away: how shall not rather the ministration of the Spirit be with glory? He said that the tables of Moses were of stone, as [also] they were written with letters; and that these were of flesh, I mean the hearts of the Apostles, and had been written on by the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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