6263. 'I did not think to see your face' means that he had not entertained any hope of an inflowing of his love. This is clear from the meaning of 'face' as the interiors, dealt with in 358, 2434, 3527, 3573, 4066, 4796, 4798, 5695, thus the affections since they shine primarily from the face, 4796, 5102 - 'God's face' therefore is Divine love and accordingly mercy, 5585; and from the meaning of 'I did not think' as not entertaining any hope. As regards an inflowing of love, this is meant by 'seeing the face', as is also evident from what is stated in the narrative immediately before and after.

4798. From their faces one can also identify evil spirits, for all their desires or evil affections are written on their faces. One can also identify from their faces which hells they are communicating with. For the hells are very many, their genera and species of desires for evil making each one distinct and separate. In general when their faces are seen in the light of heaven they are practically devoid of life, pallid like those of dead bodies - some black, others grotesque. For those faces are forms of hatred, cruelty, deceit, and hypocrisy. But the inferior light in which those evil spirits dwell together deludes them into seeing one another differently.