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And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone: and Moses put the vail upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.
Exodus 34:35 — KJV
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Exodus 34:35
King James Version (KJV)
“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody
Exodus 34:35
Verse 35 of 35
Commentary
Commentary on Exodus 34:35
Theological / DevotionalIsrael saw. After each message Moses again covered his face until he re-entered the “tent of meeting.”
In 2 Cor. 3:7-18 the apostle Paul uses this veiling of the face of Moses to typify the veiled glory of the old covenant in contrast to the unveiled and abiding glory of the new covenant. The glory of God may be discerned throughout OT times, though it is so often veiled by the imperfections of the men through whom He worked out His plan. Paul here speaks also of a “vail” upon the “heart” of the Jews of his day, to represent their spiritual blindness in not discerning Jesus of Nazareth as the Messiah of prophecy (see Matt. 15:24; 23:16; John 9:39-41). Our Lord found it difficult to remove this blindness even from His own disciples (Luke 24:25).
Moses’ removal of the veil also symbolizes the Christian believer’s “beholding” with an “open,” or unveiled, face “the glory of the Lord,” betokening his being “changed into the same image” of his Lord “from glory to glory” (2 Cor. 3:18). “The glory reflected in the countenance of Moses illustrates the blessings to be received by God’s commandment-keeping people through the mediation of Christ” (PP 330).
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