Concerning the revelation of sin, Moses' veil hangs before the eyes of all people as long as they hear the bare preaching of the Law, and nothing about Christ. Therefore, they do not learn from the Law to see their sins correctly. They either become bold hypocrites (who swell with the opinion of their own righteousness) like the Pharisees, or they despair like Judas. Therefore, Christ takes the Law into His hands and explains it spiritually. In this way God's wrath is revealed from heaven against all sinners, so that they see how great it is. In this way they are directed back to the Law, and then they first learn from it to know their sins correctly--a knowledge that Moses could never have forced out of them.
~BOC, FE, V, 8
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