2 CORINTHIANS 3:18 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But we all, with 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 the Lord.”
And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit — the final promise: Christians participate in Moses' privilege (seeing divine glory) but with unveiled face. The transformation (metamorphoumetha, we are being transformed) is ongoing, not instantaneous, moving from glory to glory (apo doxēs eis doxan). The Spirit effectuates this conformity to Christ.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 3:18
“But we all, with unveiled face, reflecting as a mirror the glory of the Lord.” Not that which is brought to an end, but that which remains. “Are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.” Do you see how again he places the Spirit in the rank of God, (vide infra) and raises them up to the rank of the Apostles. For he said before, “You are the Epistle of Christ;” and here, “But we all with open face.” Yet they came, like Moses,…
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