2nd Corinthians Chapter 4 verse 3 Holy Bible
And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled in them that perish:
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But if our good news is veiled, it is veiled from those who are on the way to destruction:
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But if also our gospel is veiled, it is veiled in those that are lost;
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But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
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Even if our Gospel is veiled, it is veiled in those who perish;
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and if also our good news is vailed, in those perishing it is vailed,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - But if our gospel be hid. This is added to avoid the semblance of a contradiction. He has spoken of "manifestation of the truth," and yet has spoken of all Jews as unable to see it because they will not remove from their hearts the veil which hides it from them. How can "a veiled gospel" be a "manifested truth"? The answer is that the gospel is bright, but the eyes that should gaze on it are wilfully closed. Similarly in 2 Corinthians 2:16, he has compared the gospel to a fragrance of life, yet to the doomed captives - "to the perishing" - it comes "like a waft from the charnel house." A better rendering would be, But even if our gospel (1 Corinthians 15:1; Romans 2:16) is a veiled one. it is veiled only among the perishing (comp. 1 Corinthians 1:18). Be hid; rather, has been veiled. To them that are lost; rather, to the perishing (see note on 2 Corinthians 2:15).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost.--Better, in both cases, as keeping the sequence of thought, has been veiled, instead of "is hid," and among them that are perishing. (See Note on 2Corinthians 2:15.) He cannot close his eyes to the fact that the glorious words of 2Corinthians 3:18 are only partially realised. There are some to whom even the gospel of Christ appears as shrouded by a veil. And these are not, as some have thought, Judaising teachers only or chiefly, but the whole class of those who are at present on the way to perish, not knowing God, counting themselves unworthy of eternal life. The force of the present participle, as not excluding the thought of future change, is again to be carefully noted.
