God being revealed, sin is measured by the glory of God. We are so used to this that we overlook its force. How strange to say, “and come short of the glory of God"! Man might say, Why of course we do; but, morally speaking, this has been revealed, and if one cannot stand before it according to it, we cannot subsist before God at all. Of course it does not mean of His essential glory—all creatures come short of that of course—but of that which was fitting for, according to, could stand in His presence. If we cannot stand there—fitly “walk in the light as God is in the light,” we cannot be with God at all. There is no veil now.