| Exodus 33:20
| And again he said: Thou canst not see my face: for man shall not see me, and live.
| My face, even in my assumed form. (Menochius) --- The effulgence would cause death, as was commonly believed, Genesis 13:16. To behold the divine essence, we must be divested of our mortal body, 1 Corinthians 2:9. (St. Gregory of Nazianzus, or. 49.) (Haydock) --- Moses, therefore, did not see it on earth, though he had greater favours shewn to him than the other prophets, Numbers 12:6. (Theodoret, q. 68; St. Chrysostom; etc.) (Worthington)
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