But if the administration of death in writings engraved on stones occurred in glory, so that the sons of Israel could not gaze upon the face of Moses because of the fading glory of his countenance,

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.