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.

60. Patri injuriosum est Filio ignorantiam affingere quasi ei inviderit.---Quomodo etiam Dominus gloriae, adventus sui ignorabili die, naturae esse incompositae imperfectaeque credetur, quae et necessitatem habeat adveniendi, et scientiam adventus sui non adepta sit? Per quod potior sit ignoratio Deo, quae ei auferat cognitionis habere virtutem. Jam vero quanta impietatis geminatur occasio; si praeter infirmitatem Christi etiam Deo patri vitium deputabitur; ut unigenitum Deum, et dilectionis suae filium, diei hujus cognitione fraudaverit, malignitatisque affectu scientiam futurae consummationis inviderit: et cum non ignorabilem ei esse passionis et diem et horam voluerit; diem virtutis ejus, et clarificandi in sanctis suis horam negaverit, et ademerit 0329D beatitudinis cognitionem, cui mortis indulserit 0330A praescientiam? Humanae istud conscientiae non potest ferre trepidatio, ut hoc sibi de Deo arbitrium praesumat, et ei vitia humanae demutationis adscribat; ut aut aliquid Filio Pater deneget, aut aliquid Deus natus ignoret.