225. They say He is inferior: I ask
who has measured it, who is of so overweening a heart, as to place the
Father and the Son before his judgment seat to decide upon which is the
greater? “My heart is not haughty nor are mine eyes raised
unto vanity,” Ps. cxxxi. 1. says
David. King David feared to raise his heart in pride in human
affairs, but we raise ours even in opposition to the divine
secrets. Who shall decide about the Son of God? Thrones,
dominions, angels, powers? But archangels give attendance and
serve Him, cherubim and seraphim minister to Him and praise Him.
Who then decides about the Son of God, on reading that the Father
Himself knows the Son, but will not judge Him. “For no man
knoweth the Son, but the Father.” S. Matt. xi. 27. “Knoweth” it says,
not “judgeth.” It is one thing to know, another to
judge. The Father has knowledge in Himself. The Son has no
power superior to Himself. And again: “No man knoweth
the Father, but the Son;” and He Himself knows the Father, as the
Father knows Him.