“And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:”
King James Version (KJV)
3:13 And we do not act as Moses did, who put a veil over his face - Which is to be understood with regard to his writings also. So that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly to the end of that dispensation which is now abolished - The end of this was Christ. The whole Mosaic dispensation tended to, and terminated in, him; but the Israelites had only a dim, wavering sight of him, of whom Moses spake in an obscure, covert manner.
2Co 3:13 And not as Moses, [which] put a vail over his face. The veil Moses put over his face (Ex 34:33) is used by Paul as a symbol to show that all was not made plain in the law of Moses, and that there is still blindness on the part of Israel. That the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished. The brightness with which the face of Moses shone (Ex 34:30,35) was to be done away. The veil prevented the children of Israel from observing its fading glory. This typifies the fact that they should not see the end of the law itself which was to be abolished.