A commentary on the whole Epistle to the Hebrews. By M. John Calvin. Translated…A commentarie on the vvhole Epistle to the Hebrevves. By M. Iohn Caluin. Translated…

Neither is there any creature hid from him, Vers. 13 &c.] This word And, is as much to say in this place (in my judgement) as if he had said, For. And so to confirm this sentence, That nothing is hidden in man, which shall not be judged by the word of God; he takes an argument from the nature of God. No creature, saith he, can be hidden before God: nothing then is so deep in the soul, which shall not be drawn into the light by his word, which resembles him that is the author of it. For as it is the office of God to search the harts, so doth he also exercise this knowledge and judgement by his word. The expositors not taking heed to this: to wit, that the word of God is as a plummet, by the which he ⟨p. 83⟩dives into the bottom of mens hearts, and searcheth and feeleth whatsoever is hidden therein, have offered violence to this whole text, and yet were not able to wind themselves out. But all the difficulty is taken away if you make the argument stand thus, That we are therefore to obey the word of God purely and with a true affection of heart, because God who knows the hearts, hath assigned this office to his word to pierce even into the very deepest thoughts of the same. They have also deceived themselves in the translation of the Greek word, which is somewhat ambiguous. For they have translated, Of whom we speak; where it ought rather to be turned, with whom we have to do. The meaning whereof is, that it is God who offereth himself unto us, or with whom we have to do, and therefore we are to take heed we dally not with him as with a mortal man: but to tremble as often as his word is propounded unto us, because nothing is so secret which is not naked and manifest before his eyes.

Neither is there any creature hid from him, Vers. 13 &c.] This word And, is as much to say in this place (in my iudgement) as if he had said, For. And so to confirme this sentence, That nothing is hidden in man, which shall not bee iudged by the word of God; he takes an argument from the nature of God. No creature, saith he, can be hidden before God: nothing then is so deep in the soule, which shal not be drawne into the light by his word, which resembles him that is the author of it. For as it is the office of God to search the harts, so doth he also exercise this knowledge and iudgement by his word. The expositors not taking heede to this: to wit, that the word of God is as a plummet, by the which hee ⟨p. 83⟩