2 CORINTHIANS 3:15 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.”
Even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts — Paul diagnoses contemporary Jewish unbelief: the Torah is read but misunderstood because Christ, the interpretive key, is absent. The heart (kardia) is veiled when it lacks Christological understanding.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 3:15
“But even unto this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies upon their heart.” For since he said that in the reading of the Old Testament the veil remains, lest any should think that this that is said is from the obscurity of the Law, he both by other things showed even before what his meaning was, (for by saying, “their minds were hardened,” he shows that the fault was their own,) and, in this place too, again. For he said not, 'The veil remains on the writing,' but “in…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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