60. But, again, how can we believe that the Lord
of glory, because He was able not to know the day of His own coming,
was of a discordant and imperfect nature, subject to the necessity of
coming, but ignorant of the day of His coming? This would make
God weaker than the power of ignorance, which took from Him the
prerogative of knowledge. Then, too, how we redouble occasions of
blasphemy, if we impute not only infirmity to Christ, but also defect
to God the Father, saying that He defrauded of foreknowledge of this
day the Only-begotten God, the Son of His love, and in malice denied
Him certainty concerning the future consummation: suffered Him to
know the day and hour of His passion, but withheld from Him the day of
His power, and the hour of His glory among His Saints: took from
Him the knowledge of His blessedness, while He granted Him prescience
of His death? The trembling conscience of man dare not presume to
think thus of God, or ascribe to Him such taint of human fickleness,
that the Father should deny anything to the Son, or the Son, Who was
born as God, should possess an imperfect knowledge.