“Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.”
God's knowledge of sin: "You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance." The exposure of all human wrongdoing—both public transgressions and hidden sins—before God's face becomes the foundation for mortality. No secret escapes divine scrutiny.
Church Fathers on Psalms 90:8
1. This Psalm is entitled, “The prayer of Moses the man of God,” through whom, His man, God gave the law to His people, through whom He freed them from the house of slavery, and led them forty years through the wilderness. Moses was therefore the Minister of the Old, and the Prophet of the New Testament. For “all these things,” says the Apostle, “happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, unto whom the ends of the world come.” 1 Corinthians…
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