or it may be spoken of as being called from "darkness to light" (I Pet. 2: 9); or yet again

it may be spoken of as a turning "from Satan unto God" (Acts 26: 18); or once again it

can be described as a deliverance from "the bondage of corruption into the glorious

liberty of the children of God" (Rom. 8: 15). The word `there' while used as an adverb

of place in English, is also used idiomatically in such statements as "There's a dear",

"Breathes there a man with soul so dead" and in other ways. It should be remembered

that the word here in II Cor. 3: 17 is the adverb `there' "in that place", and when

reading the sentence a slight stress should be put on the words "where" and "there". This

leads us to verse 18, the open face, the seeing through a glass darkly, the change, and the

transition "from glory to glory" which are important enough to demand a study to