Then I will remove my hand and you will see my back; but my face must not be seen. The partial vision Moses receives — God's back, not His face — is the maximum revelation available to the living human being within the old covenant. The back is the afterglow of the glory, the remaining radiance of what has passed. 2 Corinthians 4:6 says God made his light shine in our hearts to give us the knowledge of God's glory displayed in the face of Christ — what Moses could not see, the face of God's glory, is now visible in the face of Jesus. What Moses glimpsed from behind in the cleft of the rock, the new covenant reveals face to face.

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