What is God's glory?
Paul’s use of glory is determined by two factors—the OT and the revelation of Christ to Paul on the Damascus road. The OT and Jewish traditions form the proper context for interpreting glory in Paul. The appearance of the resurrected and exalted Christ to Paul was the key for understanding Paul’s specific appropriation of glory language. In glory (doxa) Paul inherited a word already invested with meaning. The OT refers to God’s glory (kabod), His visible presence, in several different contexts: (1) the revelation to Moses on Mount Sinai and in the tabernacle (Exod 24–40); (2) the regular celebration of God’s revelation of glory in creation and at the temple in Jerusalem; and (3) the promised revelation of God’s glory which will inaugurate the recreated kingdom of God (see Isa 40–66; Ezek 40–48). In particular the graphic description of God in Ezekiel 1:28 (and to a lesser extent Isa 6) exerted a powerful influence on the development of glory in the Jewish traditions. In l