“How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?”
Their boasting: "They pour out their words like streams, and say, 'Our Lord does not see; the God of Jacob does not perceive.'" The wicked speak as if beyond divine observation. Their denial of God's awareness becomes their characteristic arrogance.
Church Fathers on Psalms 94:4
1. As we listened with much attention, while the Psalm was in reading, so let us listen attentively, while the Lord reveals the mysteries which He has deigned to obscure in this passage. For some mysteries in the Scriptures are shut up for this reason, not that they may be denied, but that they may be opened unto those who knock. If therefore ye knock with affection of piety, and sincere heartfelt love, He, who sees from what motives ye knock, will open unto you. Matthew 7:7…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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