Origen,
Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. IV, Origen…
(1885)
“ But we know that if one turn to the Lord (for “the Lord is that Spirit”) , the veil being taken away, “he beholds, as in a mirror with unveiled face, the glory of the Lord” in those thoughts which are concealed in their literal expression, and to his own glory becomes a participator of the divine glory; the term “face” being used figuratively for the “understanding,” as one would call it without a figure, in which is the face of the “inner man,” filled with light and glory, flowing from the true comprehension of the contents of the law. ”
