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There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
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Nothing Is Hidden From God
Commentators unanimously affirm that this verse describes our complete transparency before God. Following the description of God's Word as a sharp sword, the author clarifies that no creature, thought, or motive can be concealed from God's sight. As John Calvin notes, the Word is powerful precisely because its author, God, is omniscient and uses it to examine our inmost hearts.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight. There is no being who is not wholly known to God. All His thoughts, feeli…
That is not manifest (αφανης). Old adjective (α privative and φαινω, to show), here only in the N.T. God's microscope can lay bare…
19th Century
Anglican
In his sight. Still, the proper subject is “the word of God”; but, as explained above, it has assumed the meaning, God speakin…
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Baptist
However great a revealer the Word may be, however clear a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart, the God who gave the Word is even mor…
The same truth is now expressed in different imagery. This time the impossibility of hiding anything from God is illustrated by the thought of nake…
16th Century
Protestant
Neither is there any creature, etc. The conjunction here, I believe, is causal and can be rendered as for; for in order …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight Christ is the Lord God omniscient; there is no creat…
Observe the proposed end: spiritual and eternal rest; the rest of grace here, and glory hereafter; in Christ on earth, with Christ in heaven. After…
13th Century
Catholic
Having cited two authorities—one from Genesis 2 and the other from Psalm 94—and drawn his conclusion from the second authority, the Psalm, the Apos…
