What was abolished in "look to the end of that which is abolished"? What is the "end" of it? Are you thinking it was the light on Moses face?Both a spiritual and a physical veil . . .
2 Corinthians 3
11 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
13 And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
Moses put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel could not continue to look until the end of that which is done away.
This is how the NIV puts it:
13 We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to prevent the Israelites from seeing the end of what was passing away.
I don't think it was about Moses being self-conscious, I think Moses wanted to spare the people having to see the shine fade away to nothing.
But we without a vail over our face show God's glory not as an external imprint, but from a new creation, new inside, not shining less and less with each passing day until it goes away, but shining more and more as we are being confirmed to His image.
Don't ask me since I find Paul hard to understand.
You do not think Moses and Elijah had glorified bodies when they appeared with Jesus at his transfiguration?18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Much love!