Final Exhortation to Watchfulness

32. neither the Son As our Lord is said to have "increased in wisdom" as well as "in stature" (Luke 2:52), to have prayedto the Father (Matthew 14:23; Matthew 26:39; Matthew 26:42-44, &c.); to have received commandmentfrom the Father (John 14:31), even so it is here said by Himself that His knowledge is limited. But we may believe (i) that it is only as the Son of Man, that anything could be unknown to Him, Who said "I and my Father are one;" and (ii) that as the Eternal Word, the one Messenger of Divine Revelation, He did not know of that day and that hour so as to reveal them to man. "InPatre Filius scit, though it is no part of His office to reveal it aPatre." St Augustine, quoted by Bp Wordsworth.

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