* Thou canst not.
This is well explained by Rabbi Jehudah, in Sepher Cosri, (P.
iv. 3.) "Of that divine glory mentioned in the Scripture,
there is one degree which the eyes of the prophets were able
to explore; another which all the Israelites saw, as the
cloud and consuming fire; the third is so bright, and so
dazzling, that no mortal is able to comprehend it; but should
anyone venture to look on it, his whole frame would be
dissolved." In such inconceivable splendour is the Divine
Majesty revealed to the inhabitants of the celestial world,
where he is said to "dwell in the light which no man can
approach unto." (1; Ti 6:16.) By the "face of God,"
therefore, we are to understand that light inaccessible
before which angels may stand, but which would be so
insufferable to mortal eyes, that no man could see it and
live.
24:10 Ge 32:30 De 5:24 Jud 6:22 13:22 Isa 6:5 Joh 1:18
1Ti 6:16 Heb 1:13 Re 1:16,17
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