“Truly, thou art a God who hidest thyself.” Maybe some of you like Latin—it seems to be back in vogue in some high schools. The name for this idea in Latin is Deus absconditus, the hidden God. But that doesn’t quite get at what Isaiah is saying, because we need to understand that God is not just hidden on general principles. If God is hidden, it is because he hides himself. He means to be hidden. It is God’s nature to be out of the reach of our senses. There is a distance between God and ourselves that cannot be bridged from our side. One of the main reasons we need to know the Old Testament
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