6他叫我们能承当这新约的执事。不是凭着字句,乃是凭着精意。因为那字句是叫人死,精意是叫人活。(精意或作圣灵)。
NIV He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant--not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
但是,主的灵,就是指基督第二位格。没有争议!
至于3:6中的那灵,如果根据3:17,我更倾向于指基督,而不是圣灵,何况这里说的是新约的职事!
当然,这里泛指神的灵也是完全可以的(小写的灵),即指代圣灵或基督。
17主就是那灵。主的灵在哪里,哪里就得以自由。
NIV:Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
KJV: Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord [is], there [is] liberty.
18我们众人既然敞着脸,得以看见主的荣光,好像从镜子里返照,就变成主的形状,荣上加荣,如同从主的灵变成的。
And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.