“Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.”
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is so high that I cannot attain it. The psalmist acknowledges the incomprehensibility of God's omniscience; the knowledge described in verses 1-5 exceeds human capacity to understand or achieve. Wonderful suggests awe-inspiring; the sublime nature of God's knowledge produces appropriate human response of astonishment. The inability to attain or comprehend this knowledge acknowledges the radical difference between divine and human consciousness. This verse expresses submission before the transcendent reality of divine omniscience; human comprehension breaks against the boundary of God's infinite knowledge.
Church Fathers on Psalms 139:6
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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