Q469
What does the Lord promise to the pure in heart?
That they shall see God, the promise that resolves the great tension of the Scriptures: “man shall not see me and live” (Exo 33:20), and yet “we know that we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is” (1Jo 3:2; see Q254, Q383). The invisible God is seen in his Son, “Jesus answered: ‘Don’t you know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father’” (Joh 14:9; Joh 1:18; see Q523, Q139), and the light of Tabor was granted to the pure as the pledge of that vision (Mat 17:1–2; see Q378, Q542).
