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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 18, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 45.

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Seeing God

No. 662. Seeing God. Ex. 24 : 11; John 1 : 18.

PLEASE explain Ex. 24 : 11 and John 1 : 18 : "They saw God," and, "No man hath seen God."
The passage in John declares that "no man hath seen God at any time; the only-begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him."
No mortals could look upon the unveiled glory of God's face. 1 Tim. 6 : 16; Ex. 33 : 20. The overpowering brightness would destroy them. But the Son of God, in whom is manifest the character of the Father, has in different degrees vailed his glory and revealed God to the children of men. See John 14 : 7-10. He has been seen as the elders saw him, as Isaiah saw him, as Moses saw him, but the ineffable glory of God no man hath seen.