This last
paragraph is omitted from many mss., though
contained in several of high authority. It offers a different
explanation from that which Hilary has adopted in the rest of the book
(see especially c. 59), where he maintains that Christ avoided
revealing what He really knew, by saying that He did not know.
The line adopted here is the same as that in the passage found by
Erasmus and inserted by him in Book x. c. 8. This is one of
several interpolations made in later, though still early, times to
correct or supplement Hilary’s teaching; cf. x. 8, with the
note.