And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the scroll, neither to look thereon.
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Alcuin of York
AD 804
to look upon it. Neither were they able to look at it, that is, to contemplate the splendor of the grace of the New Testament, just as the children of Israel were not able to look at the face of the lawgiver of the Old Testament.
