Two Infamous Strumpets!

As we are never out of the reach of God's hand so we are never from under the view of God's eye.

God is privy to our most secret sins. His eye is as much upon secret sins, as it is upon open sins. God has an eye upon our inmost evils. He sees all that is done in the dark.

There is no cloud, nor curtain, nor moment of darkness, which can stand between the eyes of God and the ways of men. "For a man's ways are in full view of the Lord, and He examines all his paths." (Proverbs 5:21.) In this scripture Solomon mainly speaks of the ways of the adulterer, which usually are plotted with the most cunning secrecy; yet God sees all those ways. Look! as no boldness can exempt the adulterer from the justice of God, so no secrecy can hide him from the eye of God. Though men labor to hide their ways from others, and from themselves yet it is but labor in vain to endeavor to hide them from God. Men who labor to hide God from themselves, can never hide themselves from God. Paphnutius turned Thais and Ephron, two infamous strumpets, from their harlotry, with only this argument "That God sees all things in the dark, when the doors are closed, the windows shut, and the curtains drawn."


Those sins which lie closest and are most secretly lurking in the heart, are as obvious and odious to God as those who are most fairly written upon a man's forehead. God is all eye; so that He sees all even the most secret turnings and windings of our hearts.

[Thomas Brooks]

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Psalm 90:8 … Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

Jeremiah 23:24 … Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.

Proverbs 15:3 … The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.❤