Paul in 1 Corinthians
3:6 He enables us to serve as ministers of this new covenant. Not by the letter, but by the spirit. For the letter kills
3:7 The ministry of death, written in letters on stone, had glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory in his face. . This glory was gradually fading away.
3:8 How much more glorious is spiritual ministry?
3:9 If the ministry of condemnation has glory, the ministry of justification has greater glory.
3:10 Those who once had glory have no glory because of this great glory.
3:11 If there was glory in that which ceased, then there is glory in that which endureth.
3:12 Since we have such a hope, we speak boldly,
3:13 Unlike Moses who put a veil over his face so that the Israelites could not see clearly That will be the end of those who will be crippled.
3:14 But their hearts were hardened. Even today when I read the Old Testament, this veil has not been taken off. This veil is gone in Christ.
3:15 Yet to this day, whenever the Book of Moses is read, the veil is still on their hearts.
3:16 But when their hearts turn to the Lord, the veil is removed.
3:17 The Lord is the Spirit. Wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
3:18 And we all, with open faces, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Because the ministry in the Old Testament was based on legal laws, it was a ministry that caused death and condemnation, and had only a short-lived and vague glory. The law sets standards for good and evil, but it does not give people the ability to do good. Under the law, people can only be condemned and accept the penalty of death. When Moses spoke to God and received the law from God, his face was temporarily touched by the glory of God. After Moses finished speaking to the people, he covered his face with a veil. It means that Moses did not want the people to see the glory on his face gradually fading, and the fading of this glory symbolized the short-term effect of the Mosaic law.
The ministry of the New Testament is the work of the Holy Spirit, the ministry of making people live and justify, so it has eternal and great glory. Changes in life are caused by the Spirit of the Lord. When a person believes in Christ, his mind is no longer ignorant. The original text indicates that the glory gradually increases, or that the glory comes from God. In contrast to the face of Moses in the Old Testament, in the New Testament this veil has been removed and believers can directly see the glory of the Lord.