![]() ![]() So having the truth, proclaiming the truth, and reflecting on that truth in our own lives, letting that truth change them to be more like God (this is the "answer" to the OP's question of "how" this is done "beholding" is the middle participle, so it emphasizes the idea of "looking at oneself" if it meant just "reflecting" to others, it would have been in active voice 1) works to increase our reflection of God's glory. Rom 1:18), but reflect it back upon ourselves, "beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord" (v.18b), and in looking upon that truth, "are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory" (v.18c), "by the Spirit of the Lord" (v.18d). So we have an "unveiled face" (v.18a), we do not suppress the truth of Christ and the life we have through Him (cf. sufficient as minister of the new covenant" (v.6) by the Spirit in us and working through us. believers, those that are "in Christ," v.4) are "made. Verses 14-17 reveals that the reason Israel could not look upon the glory reflecting off Moses was that their minds were blind to wanting to see truth (v.14a), and that same blindness to truth affects their reading of the OT still (v.14b and 15), until faith in Christ comes (v.14c) and takes it away (v.16), because then one has the Spirit (the greater glory) within them and this brings a freedom from the blindness to truth (v.17). ![]() Verses 12-13 refers to this ministry of the Spirit as a "hope" that is worth boldly proclaiming (v.12), and not something to be hid as Moses was having to do when Israel could not look upon His reflection of God upon His face for the lesser glory that will pass (v.13). Verse 11 indicates that the former glory (Law/Death) is fading, but the latter, greater glory (Spirit/Life) will remain. So much so, that it makes the first glory pale in comparison (v.10). Verses 8-10 ask a rhetorical question and answer, if the "ministry of death" brought such glory, how can the "ministry of the Spirit" (which is life, v.6) not be more glorious, since it is comparing the glory of condemnation to that of righteousness. Verse 7 states the giving of the Law, which brought death (see also v.6), was a glorious thing (v.7a), but the glory from Moses's face (v.7b) was not from receiving that Law, but from being in God's presence during that giving, from having "talked with Him " (Ex 34:29, 34), and so reflecting God's glory out to the people of Israel. 18 But we all, with unveiled face, 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. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 16 Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 15 But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ. ![]() 12 Therefore, since we have such hope, we use great boldness of speech-13 unlike Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the end of what was passing away. 11 For if what is passing away was glorious, what remains is much more glorious. 10 For even what was made glorious had no glory in this respect, because of the glory that excels. 7 But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away, 8 how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious? 9 For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory. ![]() 5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, 6 who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. So the immediate context of 2 Cor 3:18 is vv.4-18, here in the NKJV:Ĥ And we have such trust through Christ toward God. The verse in question comes in a passage comparing and contrasting Law versus Spirit and the glory from such. ![]()
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