“What is this that has happened to me, O friends and initiates and fellow lovers of the truth? I was running to lay hold on God, and thus I went up into the mount and drew aside the curtain of the cloud and entered away from matter and material things. And as far as I could I withdrew within myself. And then when I loo…”
Gregory of Nazianzus, 4th c. — THEOLOGICAL ORATION 2:3
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22And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:
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20And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.
21And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:
— Exodus 33:22 —
23And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.