2 Corinthians 3:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Corinthians 3:17 f. In 2 Corinthians 3:17 he explains the deep reasons why turning to the Lord is followed by the removal of the veil, and in so doing gives utterance to a statement of the greatest importance for his Christology, the Lord is the Spirit. For here, as elsewhere with few exceptions, the Lord is Christ. It is the heavenly Christ whom he recognises as the Spirit. Their influence is the same. He who turns to the One turns to the Other. And where the Spirit is there is liberty (from the Law). The hindering veil is removed. And so, because Christians are men who have turned to Christ, there is no such veil upon their hearts or upon their revelation of God. They reflect the glory of the Lord Christ undimmed. Nay, more, in reflecting it they undergo a continuous change within themselves. The image they reflect forms itself in them, and they advance from one stage of glory to another, as might be looked for from the working of the Lord the Spirit. In the case of Moses, the glory diminished and faded; in the case of Christians it increases and brightens. And where the OT spoke of the glory of Yahweh, Paul speaks of the glory of Christ.