“Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.”
But even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day; for darkness and light are both alike to you. The refutation is absolute: darkness itself is transparent to God; there is no darkness that obscures divine knowledge. The night being as bright as day to God suggests that God's perception transcends human dependence on physical light. The assertion that darkness and light are alike to God emphasizes the transcendence of divine omniscience beyond human sensory limitations. This verse completes the refutation of the possibility of hiding from God.
Church Fathers on Psalms 139:12
1. ...Our Lord Jesus Christ speaks in the Prophets, sometimes in His own Name, sometimes in ours, because He makes Himself one with us; as it is said, “they two shall be one flesh.” Wherefore also the Lord says in the Gospel, speaking of marriage, “therefore they are no more two, but one flesh.” One flesh, because of our mortality He took flesh; not one divinity, for He is the Creator, we the creature. Whatsoever then our Lord speaks in the person of the Flesh He took upon…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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