Receiving The Sight Of God

Εἰ οὖν εὕρηκα χάριν ἐναντίον σου ἐμφάνισόν μοι σεαυτόν γνωστῶς ἴδω σε ὅπως ἂν ὦ εὑρηκὼς χάριν ἐναντίον σου καὶ ἵνα γνῶ ὅτι λαός σου τὸ ἔθνος τὸ μέγα τοῦτο. Τὸ γνωστῶς ὁρώμενον, εὔδηλον ὡς θεωρίᾳ μόνον, καὶ οὐκ αἰσθήσει καταλαμβάνεται. Ὥσπερ γὰρ καὶ ὀφθαλμὸς τῶν αἰσθητῶν ἀντιλαμβάνεται δι' ὁράσεως οὕτως ὁ νοῦς, διὰ γνώσεως, Θεοῦ θεωρίαν δέχεται. Δίδυμος Αλεξανδρεύς, Ἐκλογαὶ Εἰς Την Ἐξοδον Source: Migne PG 39.113c-d

'If then I have found grace before You show Yourself to me that seeing I know You, and find grace before Your eyes that I know that this great nation is Your people.' 1 By intellectual sight He is seen, clearly by that sight alone, and the senses do not grasp Him. For as the eye by its vision perceives sensible things, so the mind by knowledge receives the sight of God. Didymus the Blind, Commentary on Exodus, Fragment 1 Exod 33.13 LXX