“The good master [Paul] teaches us . . . that ‘with face unveiled’ from the veil of the law, which is the shadow of things to come, ‘beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord,’ i.e., gazing at it through a glass, ‘we may be transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the spirit of the Lord’ . . . we shall see Him, not through a glass, but ‘as He is’; which the Apostle Paul expresses by ‘face to face.’”

—Augustine, as quoted in Enigmas and Riddles in Literature by Eleanor Cook, 2006.