He says, in effect, that while because of sin, condemnation, and the failure of the flesh,

the Old Covenant is associated with veiling the truth, the New Covenant is associated

with an "unveiled face", for the believer (II Cor. 3: 11), and "the face of Jesus Christ"

(II Cor. 4: 6). Satan, however, the god of this age, is busy fabricating a veil out of the

obsolete and abrogated law, so that the believer shall be so occupied with shadows and

types, forms and ceremonies, and the attempt to help his salvation by a modicum of

law-keeping, that he shall not see "the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the

face of Jesus Christ", and that he shall not see the "light of the gospel of the glory of

Christ", for if "with unveiled face" he once saw that, he would be changed "from glory

to glory", that is, from the fading glory of the law to the excelling glory of the

New Covenant, even as by the spirit of the Lord, and where the spirit of the Lord is,

there is liberty.  We accordingly submit the following translation to the prayerful

consideration of the reader:--

Members of the body of Christ, who are blessed under the terms of Eph. 1: 3-14, have

no connection with the New Covenant. But the truth of the underlying principle of this

passage is as true for them as for all others. The god of this age is still busy making veils.

He uses the Acts of the Apostles, the New Covenant itself, and the dispensational

portions of Paul's early epistles, to blind the minds of the believer to the glory that

excelleth in the revelation of the mystery. In Eph. 1: 15-19 the apostle assumes that

"the eyes of the heart are enlightened" before he can go forward and speak of the calling

and the riches of glory. We earnestly plead with every reader to see to it that no veil,

made out of truth pertaining to earlier dispensations, be allowed to come between the

eyes of his heart and the glory that belongs to the ascended Lord, Who has ascended up

far above all heavens.

Once again we see it is the truth that makes free. Let us remember the association of

the following passages:--