Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Corinthians 3:13

13 And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished .

We have the History, to which this passage of the Apostle relateth, in Exod. 34.33.35. where we read, that when Moses had done speaking, he put a veil on his face. The Apostle here elegantly turns that passage into an Allegory, and opens to us a Mystery hidden under that piece of History. That shining of Moses his Face, in a Type, prefigured the shining of him who was to be the Light of the World; as he was from Eternity the brightness of his Fathers Glory. Moses covering himself with a Veil, signifies Gods hiding the Mystery of Christ from Ages. Moses did not put a Veil on his Face for that end, that the Children of Israel might not look upon him; but this was the Event of it, which also prefigured the blinding of the Jews; they first shut their eyes, and would not see, then God judicially sealed their eyes, that they should not see, that Christ was the End of the Law for Righteousness, the true Messiah, and the Mediator betwixt God and Man; they could not (as the Apostle expresseth it) see to the End of that which was to be abolished; to the End of the Legal Dispensation, to the End of all the Types of Christ which were in the Levitical Law. Now (saith the Apostle) we do not do so, but make it our business to preach the Gospel with as much openness, and plainness, and freedom, as is imaginable. The whole History of the Gospel justifieth what this Text affirmeth concerning the Jews; that they could not see, that Christ, by his coming, had put an end to the Law, and the Righteousness thereof. We find upon all occassions how much the Pharisees, and those who adhered to that Sect, stuck in the Law, to the hindrance of their receiving of, or believing in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 word] 10.4.