John Trapp on Ezekiel 8:12

Ver. 12. What the Ancients of Iſrael do in the dark?] Idolatry is a deed of darkneſſe. The Athenians had their Eleuſinia, the Romans the rights of their Bona Dea, and the Egyptians their Ofiridis Pamylia, all done in the dark. The Popiſh Temples are many of them dark; and ſome ſo ſtuffed with preſents and memories, that they are thereby made much the darker.

For they ſay, The Lord ſeeth us not] Atheiſme is the ſource of all ſinfulneſſe. Theſe fools, being in the dark, thought that God could not ſee what they did there.

The Lord hath forſaken the earth] Hath caſt of all care off us, and therefore we muſt ſee to our ſelves, look us out ſome other deities. See Jer. 18.15. Lib. 2, cap. 7. What a baſe ſpeech is that of Pliny, Irridendum verò curam agere rerum humanarum, illud quicquid eſt, Summum? Tis no way likely that God taketh care what becometh of mans matters: Os durum!