Eleazar of Worms, Sefer ha-Roqeah, p. 22
Concerning that which is said, “the image of the glory of the Lord” (Ezek. 1-28), it is not [to suggest] that He has a countenance, but rather [the glory appears as an anthropos] so as not to frighten the prophet. “You saw no image” (Deut. 4-15), the [word] image (temunah) is numerically equivalent to human countenance (parsuf ’adam). They saw several images (dimyonot) at Sinai face to face.
Translated by Elliot Wolfson in Through a Speculum that Shines- Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism, Princeton- Princeton University Press, 1994.
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