62. Moreover Paul, the teacher of the Gentiles, forestalls the impious falsehood, that the Only-begotten God was partially nescient. Listen to his words, Being instructed in love, unto all riches of the fulness of understanding, unto knowledge of the mystery of God, even Christ, in Whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden560    Col. ii. 2, 3.. God, even Christ, is the mystery, and all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden in Him. But a portion is one thing, the whole another: a part is not the same as all, nor can all be called a part. If the Son does not know the day, all the treasures of knowledge are not in Him; but He has all the treasures of knowledge in Him, therefore He is not ignorant of the day. But we must remember that those treasures of knowledge were hidden in Him, though not, because hidden, therefore wanting. As in God, they are in Him: as in the mystery, they are hidden. But Christ, the mystery of God, in Whom are all the treasures of knowledge hidden, is not Himself hidden from our eyes and minds. Since then He is Himself the mystery, let us see whether He is ignorant when He does not know. If elsewhere His profession of ignorance does not imply that He does not know, here also it will be wrong to call Him ignorant, if He does not know. In Him are hidden all the treasures of knowledge, and so His ignorance is an economy rather than ignorance. Thus we can assign a reason for His ignorance, without the assumption that He did not know.

62. Nil latet eum in quo omnes scientiae thesauri, quamvis tamen latentes.---Non patitur autem in nobis doctor gentium Paulus hanc impii erroris professionem, 0330D ut ignorasse aliquid unigenitus Deus existimetur; 0331A ait enim: Instituti in dilectione, in omnes divitias adimpletionis intellectus, in agnitionem sacramenti Dei Christi, in quo sunt omnes thesauri sapientiae et scientiae absconsi. Deus Christus sacramentum est, et omnes sapientiae et scientiae in eo thesauri latent. Portioni vero, et universitati non potest convenire: quia neque pars omnia intelligitur, et omnia partem non patiuntur intelligi. Filius enim si diem nescit, jam non omnes in eo scientiae thesauri sunt: diem non ignorat, omnes in se scientiae thesauros continens. Sed meminisse nos convenit, 307 occultos in eo istos scientiae thesauros esse, neque idcirco, quia occulti sint, non inesse: cum per id, quod Deus est, in eo insint; per id vero quod sacramentum est, occultantur. Non occultum 0331B autem, neque ignoratum nobis est sacramentum Dei Christi, in quo absconsi omnes scientiae thesauri sunt. Et quia sacramentum ipse est; videamus an in his, quae nescit, ignorans sit. Si enim in caeteris professio ignorandi non habet nesciendi intelligentiam; ne nunc quidem quod nescit ignorat. Nam cum ignoratio ejus, secundum quod omnes thesauri in eo scientiae latent, dispensatio potius quam ignoratio sit; habes causam ignorandi sine intelligentia nesciendi.