Matthew Poole Commentary - Exodus 33:20 - 33:20

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Exodus 33:20 - 33:20


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This Chapter Verse Commentaries:





My face; either,



1. My essence. But that no man can see, neither in this life, nor in the next. Or rather,



2. My glorious presence. This may note either,



1. God’s purpose that that blissful vision of God in glory shall be given to no man here, but is reserved for the future life. Or rather,



2. The impossibility of the thing from man’s weakness, which is such, that if God should display all the beams of his glory to him, it would certainly astonish, overwhelm, and destroy him.