195. He therefore was not ignorant of the
days; for it does not fall to the lot of the Wisdom of God to know in
part and in part to be ignorant. For how can He who made all
things be ignorant of a part, since it is a less thing to know than to
make. For we know many things which we cannot make, neither do we
all know things in the same way but we know them in part. For a
countryman knows the force of the wind and the courses of the stars in
one way—the inhabitant of a city knows them in another
way—and a pilot in yet a third way. But although all do not
know all things, they are said to know them; but He alone knows all
things in full, Who made all things. The pilot knows for how many
watches Arcturus continues, what sort of a rising of Orion he will
discover, but he knows nothing of the connection of the Vergiliæ
and of the other stars, or of their number or names, as does He
“Who numbers the multitude of stars, and calleth them all by
their names;” Ps. cxlvii. 4. Whom indeed
the power of His work cannot escape.