626. That 'God saw the earth^a' means God's knowledge of man may be clear to anyone, for God, who from eternity knows about every single thing, does not need to look and see whether man is such. Seeing is something human, and therefore, as stated at verse 6 and elsewhere, a manner of speaking in conformity with things as they are seen in man is used; so much so that He is even referred to as seeing with eyes.

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