2 Paralipomenon 6:30
Hear thou from heaven, from thy high dwelling place, and forgive, and render to every one according to his ways, which thou knowest him to have in his heart: (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:)
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- tu exaudies de cælo, de sublimi scilicet habitaculo tuo : et propitiare, et redde unicuique secundum vias suas, quas nosti eum habere in corde suo (tu enim solus nosti corda filiorum hominum) :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ σὺ εἰσακούσῃ ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἐξ ἑτοίμου κατοικητηρίου σου καὶ ἰάσῃ, καὶ δώσεις ἀνδρὶ κατὰ τὰς ὁδοὺς αὐτοῦ ὡς ἂν γνῷς τὴν καρδίαν αὐτοῦ, ὃτι μόνος γινώσκεις τὴν καρδίαν υἱῶν ἀνθρώπων·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְ֠אַתָּה תִּשְׁמַ֨ע מִן הַשָּׁמַ֜יִם מְכ֤וֹן שִׁבְתֶּ֨ךָ֙ וְסָ֣לַחְתָּ֔ וְנָתַתָּ֤ה לָאִישׁ֙ כְּכָל דְּרָכָ֔יו אֲשֶׁ֥ר תֵּדַ֖ע אֶת לְבָב֑וֹ כִּ֤י אַתָּה֙ לְבַדְּךָ֣ יָדַ֔עְתָּ אֶת לְבַ֖ב בְּנֵ֥י הָאָדָֽם
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom, Matthew IX. 1, 2
But that it belongs to God only to know men’s secrets, hear what saith the prophet, “Thou most entirely aloneknowest the hearts;”and again, “God trieth the hearts and reins;” and Jeremiah too saith, “The heart is deep above all things, and it is man, and who shall know him?”and, “Man shall look on the face, but God on the heart.” And by many things one may see, that to know what is in the mind belongs to God alone.
St John Cassian The Conferences of John Cassian. Part I. Containing Conferences I-X, Chapter XIII. How spirit cannot be penetrated by spirit, and how God alone is incorporeal
For even if spirit is mingled with this crass and solid matter; viz., flesh (as very easily happens), should we therefore believe that it can be united to the soul, which is in like manner spirit, in such a way as to make it also receptive in the same way of its own nature: a thing which is possible to the Trinity alone, which is so capable of pervading every intellectual nature, that it cannot only embrace and surround it but even insert itself into it and, incorporeal though it is, be infused into a body? For though we maintain that some spiritual natures exist, such as angels, archangels and the other powers, and indeed our own souls and the thin air, yet we ought certainly not to consider them incorporeal. …