223. As the “face of the Lord” is mercy, peace, and every good, it is evident that He regards all from mercy, and never averts His countenance from any; but that it is man, when in evil, who turns away his face, as is said by the Lord in Isaiah:

Your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from you (Isaiah 59:2); and here, “they hid themselves from the face of Jehovah, because they were naked.”