Verse 14
14. But their minds were blinded Rather, their perceptive faculties were calloused. As if the retina of their mind’s eye was glazed, so as to blind their spiritual perceptions. What they could not see was, that the glory of the old covenant was as certainly transient as the glory on its founder’s face, being preparatory for a higher glory in a second founder, Christ. St. Paul does not, however, mean that it was a blindness in them not to see that the fading on Moses’s face was a showing of the transitory nature of the old covenant. He does not mean to affirm that the evanescence of the facial glory was a divinely intended type of fading Mosaicism. He uses it simply as a vivid illustration furnished by himself. The mind of the Jew in Moses’s day was blinded so as not to see that the Mosaic dispensation, in its whole structure and nature, was a preparation and a type to merge into its future antitype.
Remaineth the same vail The same nonperception of the fading of the old covenant imaged by the same vail that concealed the evanescence of the facial radiance, remaineth. The same vail has passed from Moses’s face to overspread the Jewish heart in the reading of the old testament at this day.
Done away The spiritual ignorance being removed in Christ.
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