Now if the ministry of death that was inscribed in letters of stone came with such glory that the people of Israel could not gaze on Moses' face (because the glory was fading away from it),

and are not as Moses. He put a veil over his face in order for the sons of Israel not to gaze on the end of the fading.

while I am gazing not at things seen, but at things unseen; for things seen are temporal, but things unseen are eternal.

Such being my hope then, I am quite frank and open ??13 not like Moses, who used to hang a veil over his face to keep the children of Israel from gazing at the last rays of a fading glory.