whom not having known you love; in whom, though now you don't see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory--

 (iv) There is the beatific vision. It was John's confidence that we shall see him as he is ( 1 John 3:2). "Now," said Paul, "we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face" ( 1 Corinthians 13:12). If the eye of faith endures, the day will come when it will be the eye of sight, and we shall see face to face and know even as we are known. 