Yet they are implicitly connected with a central theme of the Old Testament, concerning an essential attitude of piety that is described in a series of texts as “seeking the face of God”. Despite the difference in terminology, there is a profound continuity between the Johannine “looking on Christ” and the Old Testament “being on the way” toward looking upon the face of God. In Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians the verbal connection is also to be found, when he writes about the glory of God that appears in the face of Christ (2 Cor 4:6).
