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then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of 

 speech : and not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, 

 that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the 

 end of that which is abolished : hut their minds were bUnd- 

 ed ; for until this day remaineth the same veil untaken 

 away in the reading of the Old Testament, which veil is 

 done away in Christ. But even unto this day, when Moses 

 iS read, the veil is upon their heart. Nevertheless, when it 

 shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away. (Now 

 the Lord is that Spirit ; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, 

 there is liberty.) But we all Avith open face beholding as in 

 a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same 

 image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of Lhe Loid. 

 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received 

 mercy, we faint not." 



Who sees not that this whole allegory of the veil arisej* 

 entirely out of the occurrence of the word, in telling us that 

 " Moses put a veil over his face," and that it drev/ the 

 apostle away from the proper subject of his discourse, the 

 dignity of the office in which he w^as engaged ? which sub- 

 ject he fetches up again almrost in the words with which he 

 had left it : " therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we 

 have received mercy, we faint not." The sentence which 

 he had before been going on with, and in which he had 

 been interrupted by the veil, was, " Seeing then that we 

 have such hope, we use great plainness of speech." 



Li the epistle to the Ephesians, the reader will remark 

 two instances in which the same habit of composition obtains : 

 he will recognize the same pen. One he will find, chap. 

 4 : 8-1 1, at the word ascended : " Wherefore he saith. When 

 be ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave 

 gifts unto men. (Now that he ascended, what is it but that 

 he also descended first unto the lower parts of the earth ? 

 H3 that descended is the same also that ascended up fax 

 above all heavens, that he might fill all things.) And he 

 gave some, apostles," etc. 



