2 Corinthians 3:18 (ESV)
18 And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
Albert
Barnes’comment on this:
“It
properly means, to look in a mirror; to behold as in a mirror. The mirrors of
the ancients were made of burnished metal, and they reflected images with great
brilliancy and distinctness. And the meaning is that the gospel reflected the
glory of the Lord; it was, so to speak, the mirror--the polished, burnished
substance in which the glory of the Lord shone, and where that glory was
irradiated and reflected so that it might be seen by Christians. There was no veil
over it; no obscurity; nothing to break its dazzling splendor, or to prevent
its meeting the eye. Christians, by
looking on the gospel, could see the glorious perfections and plans of God, as
bright, and clear, and brilliant as they could see a light reflected from the
burnished surface of the mirror. So to speak, the glorious perfections
of God shone from heaven, beamed upon the gospel, and were thence reflected to
the eye and the heart of the Christian, and had the effect of transforming them
into the same image.”[1]
[Emphasis mine]
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