Exodus 33:18-23 read as a statement about time. Moses asks to see the glory and is told: I will let my goodness pass before you, but my face you shall not see; I will cover you with my hand as I pass by, then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back. Neville glosses the face as tomorrow and the back as the eternal play, all that is taking place - so what is withheld is foreknowledge and what is granted is the completed drama. A man may see God's history and not the next day's news. The reason given for the prohibition is not reverence but consequence: man, uncivilised as he is, would hurt man all the more if he could see the face. The illustration is a couple who flew in from San Francisco and took a suite at the Plaza for six weeks to attend his Bible class in New York, millionaires on both sides with a house on Nob Hill and eight acres in Holmby Hills, wanting one thing - tomorrow's closing stock market quotations, twenty-four hours early, which would have been another twenty million in a day. Neville's answer is the obituary column: a man turning quickly to the quotations could have his attention arrested on the way by his own death notice printed for the next day, and would die at that moment. And yet he insists tomorrow is already done and can be modified within certain spheres, which is why the same lecture teaches going forward in time deliberately.