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2Cor.3:14 But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.

Why does Paul speak of a veil on the eyes of Israel? Well, the nation ask Moses to veil his face after receiving the Ten-Commandments that nations trembled in fear of the glory of God reflected on Moses face. Now Paul eludes to this veil being on the face of Israel still, not wanting to see God glory, but there is more here for a Christians to consider.

Hebrews 12:18 For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,

Hebrews 12:20 for they could not stand that which was commanded, "If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned{TR adds "or shot with an arrow" [see Exodus 19:12-13]};"{Exodus 19:12-13}

The flesh cannot see God, and yet live, because of its condition of sin, God's righteousness is so pure that fear grips the heart of any sinful human coming into contact with God's own glory. But still there is more here, the mind of the flesh is opposed to the Holy Spirit it cannot know God nor please God, but it is also a legal mind, one that sees God only through laws.

Isa.6:5 Then I said, "Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!"
6:6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar.
6:7 He touched my mouth with it, and said, "Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven."

Hence, the Jews were very fleshly people and they dearly loved the law because they could not walk in Spirit and truth by faith. This is why the great nation kill the Son of God and all the prophets, because they seen them as of no value by the legal judgment of the fleshly mind. Hence, they veil their faces just as they begged Moses too do after meeting God's glory through an angel. Now that same nation is faced with an even greater glory, the glory of the only begotten Son of God, whom was the light too their world, but for a short time.

John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

John 8:15 You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.

Christ went to the reality after his precious blood was shed completing the Old Covenant and opening the glorious freedom of the New covenant by Holy Spirit. Such glory was the reality of those Jew's faith, their nation and temple service shadow of truth, Christ Jesus. Hence, they missed it because of a legal mind which judge God's as evil. They could not let God's Holy Spirit write the law of love into their hearts, they could not understand the a law called love? What shocking statements to the legal mind set upon truth, the law, and holiness, how could love be any valua in disciplining a nation of for wicked acts?

Subsequently, Christ was despised for such teachings, he looked plague and hated by God for such teachings, how wrong could a people be in murdering the Son of God. The law could not teach them love, or God's law of love, no! They were veil to such thinking by a legal mind of the flesh. Sadly, Paul states here after even after Christ left the earth the veil still existed for the Jew's, and if the Gentles were not very careful in not being seduced by Jews in bring back parts of the Old law mixing it into the New Covenant they would also be blinded to the New Covenant and law of the Spirit and losing the light.

Galatians 2:18 For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.

Galatians 2:19 For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

Galatians 2:21 I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!"

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