Cornelius a Lapide

For we walk by faith , not by sight. For we do not yet behold the nature and beauty of God face to face. So Chrysostom, Theodoret, Theophylact, and CEcumenius. Therefore they are wrong, whoever they be, that say that the Blessed see God, not directly in 68 SECOND EPISTLE TO THE His Essence, but by means of some appearance which represents His Essence, in the same way that the appearance of colour received on the retina represents to the eye the colour of the wall It is no such kind of sight that the Apostle here means, but that by which an object is plainly seen in itself. For faith is opposed to sight; but by faith we do not see, but darkly believe what is future and absent