Misinterpretations often portray Moses' veil as hiding shame, inadequacy, or deception rather than protecting Israel from the overwhelming yet fading glory that signified the old covenant's transience; others wrongly assume Paul denigrates Moses or abolishes God's moral law entirely, missing the typological contrast between the diminishing ministry of death and condemnation with the enduring ministry of righteousness and life in Christ.
II Corinthians 3:13
King James Version (1769)
13 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:
Paul uses Moses' veiling of his face after receiving the law to illustrate the temporary and veiled nature of the old covenant's glory, which faded and was meant to point to something greater; the Israelites could not gaze steadily at this glory because it was passing away, symbolizing how that covenant has been abolished or set aside in Christ, allowing believers under the new covenant to experience an unveiled, permanent, and surpassing glory through the Spirit.