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Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?
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God's Unescapable Presence
The psalmist's questions are rhetorical, powerfully affirming God's omnipresence. Commentators agree that the central message is the impossibility of escaping God's presence. Whether by slow travel or rapid flight, there is no corner of the universe—physical or spiritual—where one can go to be outside of God's reach and sight.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Whither shall I go from thy spirit? - Where shall I go where your spirit is not; that is, where you are not; where there is no God.…
19th Century
Anglican
Spirit. —If this clause stood alone, we would naturally understand God’s Spirit to mean His creative and providential pow…
Baptist
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it. Whither shall I go from thy spirit?
Not that David desi…
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16th Century
Protestant
Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? I consider that David develops the same idea: that it is impossible for anyone, by any deception, to e…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Whither shall I go from your spirit ? &c.] Or, "from your wind?" which some interpret literally, the wind being God'…
We cannot see God, but he can see us. The psalmist did not desire to go from the Lord. Where can I go? In the most distant corners of the world, in…
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