it is said that a man shall see death (Lk 2:26, Jn 8:51); or when the Lord speaks of a man as ‘seeing the light of this world’ (Jn 11:9), where, of course, it is more strictly the vision of objects made possible through the presence of the light of day. (2) The second figurative sense is a very ordinary one in the Gospels, where the verb ‘to see’ is employed in the sense of the spiritual vision of the mind and soul. In the Beatitudes, for example, the blessing of the pure in heart is that they shall
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