“The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever” (Deut. 29:29).
In John Calvin’s understanding, these words from Deuteronomy 29:29 serve as the equivalent of a theological “no trespassing” sign. A distinction is drawn by this text between those things that are “revealed” and those things that are “secret,” and the latter are unequivocally identified as the unique property of God. To investigate such “hidden” things without license constitutes an act of intrusion upon territory very clearly marked out by God as God’s own. Read more
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