And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where [art] thou?
Ver. 9. Where art thou?] Not as if God knew not; for he searcheth Jerusalem with lights; yea, himself is the "father of lights," Jam 1:17 the great eye of the world, to whom the sun itself is but a snuff. He hath "seven eyes upon one stone"; Zec 3:9 yea, "his eyes run to and fro through the earth"; 2Ch 16:9 and "all things are naked and open" - naked, for the outside, and open, for the inside - "before the eyes of Him with whom we have to deal." Heb 4:13 Simple men hide God from themselves, and then think they have hid themselves from God; like the struthiocamelus, they thrust their heads into a hole, when hunted, and then think none seeth them. a But he "searcheth" - so one may do, yet not find - "and knoweth." Psa 139:1 "He seeth" - so one may do, yet not observe - "and pondereth." Pro 5:21 Though men hide their sins, as close as Rachel did her idols, or Rahab the spies; though they dig deep to hide their counsels, God can and will detect them, with a woe to boot. Isa 29:15 For "hell and destruction are before him"; Pro 15:11 how then can Saul think to be hid behind the stuff, or Adam behind the bush? At the voice of the Lord he must appear, will he, nill he, to give account of his fear, of his flight. This he doth (but untowardly) in the words following.
a Pliny