How can my lord’s servant speak with you, my lord? For now no strength or even breath is left in me.”
He also ordered the second servant and the third and all the others who followed behind the herds: “Thus and so you shall say to Esau, when you reach him;
But you cannot see my face, for no one can see me and live.
So I was left alone to see this great vision. No strength remained in me; I turned the color of death and was powerless.
you are that tree, O king, large and strong! Your majesty has become so great as to touch the heavens, and your rule reaches to the ends of the earth.
David himself, inspired by the holy Spirit, said: ‘The Lord said to my lord, “Sit at my right hand until I place your enemies under your feet.”’
No one has ever seen God. The only Son, God, who is at the Father’s side, has revealed him. John the Baptist’s Testimony to Himself.
Gideon, now aware that it had been the messenger of the Lord, said, “Alas, Lord God, that I have seen the messenger of the Lord face to face!”