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Psalms 94:9

Psalms 94:9

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see? This argument for a real, personal, intelligent God appears here, for the first time. It is of irresistible force.

"Can it be possible that God, who planned and made the curious mechanism of hearing and vision, is himself without those faculties, or something analogous to them? Must he not hear those cries, and see those outrages, which men, who are his creatures, see and hear?

Is it conceivable that he can be an unobservant and apathetic God?" (Cheyne).

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