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Exodus 33:20

And he said, You can not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.
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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)
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Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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