Cyril of Alexandria, on Exod 34:33

“And having done speaking, he put a veil upon his face.”

“The shadows bring forth the truth, even if they are not at all the truth themselves. Because of this, the divinely inspired Moses placed a veil upon his face and spoke thus to the children of Israel, all but shouting by this act that a person might behold the beauty of the utterances made through him, not in outwardly appearing figures but in meditations hidden within us.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.