And I turned aside my hand, and thou sawest behind me: and they shall not see my face.
None has seen God at any time; the only born Son, he being in the bosom of the Father, he has declared.
And he will say, Thou shalt not be able to see my face: for none shall see my face, and live.
Who only having immortality, inhabiting inaccessible light; which none of men saw, nor can see; to whom honour and might forever. Amen.
For now we see by a mirror in an enigma; then face to face: now I know by parts; and then shall I know as I was known.
Behold these the ends of his ways; how transient a sound of the word was heard in him! and the thunder of his might who shall understand?
Searching shalt thou and God? Shalt thou find the Almighty even to completeness?