Well let's look at another . This came up in our study.
2 Corinthians 3:16 KJV
“Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.”
OTHERS
Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
NASB
but whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
NLT
But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away
But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
The context is ISRAEL / Jews . Not ' anyone ' .
Literally= if shall have turned to Lord shall have taken away the veil.
I like KJV1611 user said. The Heart is the context.
7But if the ministration of death, written
and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which
glory was to be done away:
8How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
9For if the ministration of condemnation
be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
10For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
11For if that which is done away
was glorious, much more that which remaineth
is glorious.
12Seeing then that
we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
13And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
14But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament;
which vail is done away in Christ. 15But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
16Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away. 17Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord
is, there
is liberty.
18But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory,
even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
It is using an OT example of how we all are changed into the image of the glory of the Lord by the Spirit of the Lord by turning to Christ in faith and not shrinking back in unbeleif. We are not to be like them. It was not a good thing that they could not look at the glory on Moses face. They shrank back in unbelief when they should have been wanting to experience the same glory.
BUT WE WITH AN OPEN FACE BEHOLD the Glory of the Lord and are changed from glory to glory.