220. There are, however, some not so
faint-hearted as I. For I would rather fear the deep things of
God, than be wise. There are some, however, relying on the
words: “And Jesus increased in age and in wisdom and in
favour with God and man,” S. Luke ii. 52. who boldly
say, that according to His Godhead indeed He could not be ignorant of
the future, but that in His assumption of our human state He said that
He as Son of Man was in ignorance before His crucifixion. For
when He speaks of the Son, He does not speak as it were of another; for
He Himself is our Lord the Son of God and the Son of a Virgin.
But by a word which embraces both, He guides our mind, so that He as
Son of Man according to His adoption of our ignorance and growth of
knowledge, might be believed as yet not fully to have known all
things. For it is not for us to know the future. Thus He
seems to be ignorant in that state in which He makes progress.
For how does He progress according to His Godhead, in Whom the fulness
of the Godhead dwells? Col. ii. 9. Or what
is there which the Son of God does not know, Who said: “Why
think ye evil in your hearts?” S. Matt. ix. 4. How
does He not know, of Whom Scripture says: “But Jesus knew
their thoughts”? S. Luke vi. 8.