“Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?”
Where can I go from your spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence? The rhetorical questions asserting the inescapability of God's presence begin the second major movement of the psalm. Flee from your presence suggests active attempt to escape divine knowledge or judgment; yet the question form asserts the futility of flight. Your spirit and your presence indicate that God's omniscience is expressed through the divine presence that pervades all reality. This verse moves from affirming omniscience to exploring its implications: nowhere can one hide from God.
Church Fathers on Psalms 139:7
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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