And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.
Ver. 25. For he knew what was in man] Artificers know the nature and properties of their works, and shall not Christ of the heart? He searcheth men's hearts, and trieth the reins, which of all their inwards are the most inward; a besides that they are the seats and springs of all our thoughts and lusts. Deus intimior nobis intimo nostro, saith one, God is nearer to us than we are to ourselves, and knows our thoughts long before, as a gardener knows what flowers he shall have at spring, because he knows the roots.
a Nihil eorde ae renibus magis intimum; adeo ut per multos meatus atque incurvos anfractus deferri elaborati cibi debeant, antequam eo possint perduci.