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letter that killeth, that they could not see the glory that excelleth. Taking these facts into
consideration, the translation which we have been compelled to accept is as follows:--
"But if our gospel be vailed, it is vailed by those things that are perishing (i.e., the
things of the old covenant that had been abolished, as, for example, circumcision, which
now severs from Christ and from grace, Gal. 5: 2-4), by which the god of this age blinded
the thought (see Gal. 3: 14) of them that believe not, that the light of the gospel of the
glory of Christ, Who is the image of God, should dawn upon them" (II Cor. 4: 3, 4).
Satan would have us occupied rather with the transient glory of Moses, than the light
of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. In all this we do not
intend to suggest that the law of Moses is untrue, or that any part of the O.T. is less
inspired than the N.T.; what we seek to show is, that by allowing oneself to be occupied
with the truth that belongs to a dispensation past and gone, we allow the god of this age,
by the deceitful handling of the Word of God, to "blind our thoughts" and hide the
"gospel of the glory of Christ". It will be seen, therefore, that the principle of rightly
dividing the Word of truth is of supreme importance to all believers, for its neglect may
vail the glory of the ascended Lord.