The Old Testament Scriptures are intelligible only when un- derstood as predicting and prefiguring Christ. The present Karapydrat {is done aicciy) is used as expressing the certain consequence. The knowledge of Christ, as a matter of fact and as a matter of course, removes the veil from the Old Testament.
15. But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart.
But, dAAa, 071 the contrary, i. e. so fiir from being taken away, the veil remains until this day. When Moses is read. The word 7]VLKa, when, is used in the New Testament only here and in v. 16. As it occurs often in the Septuagint, and is used in Exodus 34, 34, it is the more probable that the lan- guage of that version was before the apostle's mind, and de- termined the mode in which he presents the incident of Moses veiling his face, which, as shown above, accords better with the view which the Septuagint gives of the original than with that presented in the English version. In Acts 15, 21, Moses, it is said, was read every sabbath day in the synagogues. The veil, or, as the article is wanting, a veil, was, however, over his face. The apostle presents the idea that the Jews did not understand their Scriptures in two forms. He says, in V. 14, that a veil rests on the Old Testament, and here that a veil was over the hearts of the Jews. The true source of the Avant of knowledge was subjective. The revelation of Christ, even in the writings of the Old Testament, though ob- scure when compared with that contained in the writings of the apostles, was sufficiently clear to be understood if the Jews had only been in a right state of mind. Hence our Lord upbraided his disciples, saying, " O fools and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken," Luke 24, 25. Com- pare Acts 13, 27-29. The darkness was not so much in the Scriptures, as in their minds.
16. Nevertheless, when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil sbaU be taken away.
According to the narrative in Ex. 34, 29-35, as understood
by the Septuagint, and as expounded by the apostle, the face
of Moses was made to shine by speaking with the Lord ; when
among the people (except when delivering his message) he
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