Nor is it without good reason, that Paul has added a term of universality - “ We all,” says he for he takes in the whole body of the Church. I have accordingly followed his rendering.Ĥ18 418 Wiclif (1380) following, as he is wont to do, the Vulgate, renders as follows: “And alle we that with open face seen the glorie of the Lord.” Calvin’s rendering, it will be observed, is - “ In speculo conspicientes ” - “beholding in a mirror.” - Ed. The old interpreter, however, has correctly judged, that the second of these is the more suitable to the passage before us. He thought that young men should frequently look at themselves in a mirror.
Thus Plato says, Τοις μεθυουσι συνεβουλευε κατοπτριζεσθαι - “He advised drunken persons to look at themselves in a mirror.” So alsoĭiogenes Laert. D.) It is more frequently employed in the latter signification. The word κατοπτριζεσθαι, it is true, has aĭouble signification among the Greeks, for it sometimes means to hold out a mirror to be looked into, and at other times to look into a mirror when presented.Ĥ17 417 “It is made use of in the former sense by Plutarch, (2.
I know not how it had come into the mind of Erasmus, to apply to ministers exclusively, what is evidently common to all believers. To another for this comes from the Lord, the Spirit.ġ8. 18And all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory 17Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 15Indeed, to this very day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their minds 16but when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. Indeed, to this very day, when they hear the reading of the old covenant, that same veil is still there, since only in Christ is it setĪside.
Of his face, a glory now set aside, 8how much more will the ministry of the Spirit come in glory? 9For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, much more does the ministry of justification abound in glory! 10Indeed, what once had glory has lost its glory because of the greater glory 11for if what was set aside came through glory, much more has the permanent come in glory!ġ2 Since, then, we have such a hope, we act with great boldness, 13not like Moses, who put a veil over his face to keep the people of Israel from gazing at the end of the glory that was being set aside. 5Not that we are competent of ourselves to claim anything as coming from us our competence is from God, 6who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of letter but of spirit for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.ħ Now if the ministry of death, chiseled in letters on stone tablets, came in glory so that the people of Israel could not gaze at Moses’ face because of the glory Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Surely we do not need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you or from you, do we? 2You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all 3and you show that you are a letter of Christ, prepared by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets ofĤ Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God.
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