What Does 2 Corinthians 3:15 Mean?
But until today, whenever Moses is read, a covering lies upon their heart.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.THE KEY
The veil is a covering over the heart, so Scripture can be read while its meaning remains concealed.
THE MEANING
Words can be read while the heart remains covered to what they disclose. The veil lies over the inward place of perception, making exposure to scripture different from recognizing its meaning. The verse names a condition that still exists in the present.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that reading a sacred text guarantees that the heart has received its meaning.
THE ROOT
κάλυμμα
kalymma
GROWS FROM
καλυπτ
The stem καλυπτ- (kalypt-) means to cover or conceal.
The word belongs to a family of covering and uncovering. The verse places the cover over the heart: the words are present, but what they disclose is not yet perceived.
ALSO GROWS
kalyptō: to cover, conceal
καλύπτω
This verb names the action behind the veil image: something is covered while it remains present.
apokalyptō: to uncover, reveal
ἀποκαλύπτω
The same root family names the removal of a covering, making the veil an image of concealed perception that can be unveiled.
ἀναγινώσκηται
anaginōskētai
GROWS FROM
γινωσκ
The stem γινωσκ- (ginōsk-) means to know or recognize.
“is read” in this verse is anaginōskētai. The reading verb belongs to the same Greek knowing and recognizing family as γινώσκω (ginōskō, to know or recognize). Reading and recognition stand close without becoming identical: the text can be read while the covered heart does not recognize its meaning.
ALSO GROWS
ginōskō: to know, recognize
γινώσκω
This is the knowing verb at the center of the family to which the verse’s reading verb belongs.
epiginōskō: to recognize, come to know
ἐπιγινώσκω
Its shared γινωσκ stem keeps recognition in view, sharpening the distinction between reading words and perceiving them.
THE PATTERN
Perception of scripture involves an inward opening, not mere exposure to its words.
Uncover my eyes, that I may gaze upon the wonders from your instruction.Then he threw open their minds, so that they might put the writings together.THE THREAD
But their thoughts were hardened, for until today the same covering remains in the reading of the old covenant, not being uncovered, which is made idle in the Anointed One.Verse 14 calls this the same veil, using the same Greek noun κάλυμμα (kalymma, a covering) found in verse 15. The covering over the mind in the reading is now described as resting over the heart, showing how the veil reaches inward perception while the words continue to be read.
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