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A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Second Epistle to the Corinthians, Volume 1 is unavailable, but you can change that!

For over one hundred years, the International Critical Commentary series has held a special place among works on the Bible. It has sought to bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis—linguistic and textual no less than archaeological, historical, literary and theological—with a level of comprehension and quality of scholarship unmatched by any other series. No attempt has been made to...

veiled nature of the old covenant (3:14–15):655 the other term of the comparison is more likely to be personal. Perhaps Christians are contrasted with Israelites.656 In that case, however, one would expect their hearts, rather than their faces, to be unveiled.657 It is most probable that they are contrasted with Moses, who both veiled and unveiled his face. If so, Paul may be suggesting that, as Moses unveiled his face when he entered the tent to speak with Yahweh, so Christians have the same direct
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