But we all with unveiled face nlt full#
Though the glory of Christ as Mediator, being full of grace and truth, seems to be chiefly designed this he has from God, and had it from everlasting this he gives to his people, and is what makes him so glorious, lovely, and desirable in their eye: and whilst this delightful object is beheld by them, they are
But we all with unveiled face nlt free#
Jesus Christ: not the glory of his human nature, which lies in its union to the Son of God, and in its names which it has by virtue of it and in its being the curious workmanship of the Spirit of God, and so is pure and holy, and free from all sin and was outwardly beautiful and glorious, and is so at the right hand of God, where we see him by faith, crowned with glory and honour and shall behold him with the eyes of our bodies, and which will be fashioned like to his glorious body but this sight and change are not yet: rather the glory of his divine nature is meant, which is essential and underived, the same with his Father's is ineffable, and incomprehensible it appears in the perfections he is possessed of, and in the worship given to him it was manifested in the doctrines taught, and in the miracles wrought by him there were some breakings forth of this glory in his state of humiliation, and were beheld by the apostles, and other believers, who saw his glory, as the glory of the only begotten of the Father. Not of the law, but of the Gospel, and the ordinances of it not with the eyes of their bodies, but with the eyes of their understandings, with the eye of faith which sight is spiritual, delightful, and very endearing throws a veil over all other objects, and makes souls long to be with Christ: the object beheld is
We are not like Moses, who had a veil on his face nor like the Jews, who have one on their hearts: "but we all" not ministers and preachers of the Gospel only, but all believers, whether Jews or Gentiles, greater or lesser believers, who are enlightened by the Spirit of God, and are converted to Christ: "with open face" which may regard the object beheld, the glory of Christ unveiled, that has no veil on it, as Moses had on his face, when he delivered the law or the persons beholding, who are rid of Jewish darkness the veil of the ceremonial law, and of natural darkness and blindness of mind and so clearly and fully, comparatively speaking,
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