And he said,
You can not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.
All Commentaries on Exodus 33:20 Go To Exodus 33
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
My face, even in my assumed form. (Menochius)
The effulgence would cause death, as was commonly believed, Genesis xiii. 16. To behold the divine essence, we must be divested of our mortal body, 1 Corinthians ii. 9. (St. Gregory of Nazianzus, or. 49.) (Haydock)
Moses, therefore, did not see it on earth, though he had greater favours shown to him than the other prophets, Numbers xii. 6. (Theodoret, q. 68; St. Chrysostom;) (Worthington)