Christ’s letter written by his own Spirit; veil lifted in the Lord

how is Christ not God, even if the Word from God the Father has become human economically?

“You are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by all people, and you show that you are a letter of Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of fleshy hearts.”

God said somewhere through one of the holy prophets: “In that time, says the Lord, I will put my laws into their mind, and I will write them on their hearts.” So we have become Christ’s letter — he writing on us what he wills not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God — not merely as a minister, but, so to speak, by his own working; for the Spirit is his own. Then how is he not God, who writes for us in his own Spirit the way of knowing God?

About the Jews he says: “But their minds were hardened. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted at the reading of the old covenant, because it is abolished in Christ. But to this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart. But whenever one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.”

If Christ is the end of the law and the prophets, and the veil over the reading of the old covenant is not uncovered except in Christ alone, what sense is there in thinking him a common human, honored only with the title of sonship? It turns out