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The NT epistle for the Sunday next before Lent is 2 Corinthians 3.12–4.2, in which Paul draws a comparison between Moses' encounter with God in Ex 34 and our encounter with God in the person of Jesus, using the metaphor of the 'veil being removed'. There are clear connections with the gospel passage, which is the Transfiguration according to Luke 9.28–36.

Paul's argument has a clear logic to it, though the comparison with Moses/the 'law' (Torah) needs to be read in its Jewish context; Paul is a Jew, and is comparing the glory of the Torah with the even greater glory of the new covenant in Jesus—not simply dismissing the first in the light of the second. And he reads the symbol of the 'veil' theologically, and not in the way we might from Ex 34 on its own.

Come and join Ian and James as they explore these questions! Revd James Blandford-Baker is vicar of Histon and Impington, two villages just north of Cambridge. Revd Dr Ian Paul is Associate Minister of St Nic's, Nottingham, and writes the widely-read blog www.psephizo.com.

You can find the Grove booklet on The Hope of Seeing God here: https://grovebooks.co.uk/product/d-13-the-hope-of-seeing-god-the-beatific-vision-and-formation/

The video on the gospel reading for this week of the Transfiguration in Luke 9.28–36 can be found here: https://youtu.be/mFRQc9G6EHE

You can read the written commentary about it here: https://www.psephizo.com/biblical-studies/what-does-the-transfiguration-mean-in-luke-9/