Annotatio CCIX

”Thy knowledge is become wonderful [beyond] me; it is exalted, and I shall not be able to [reach] it.” — Psalm 138:6

Cassiodorus, elucidating this, seems to intimate that the Soul of Christ neither has knowledge equal with God, nor knows all things which God knows.¹ For he says: “The wonderful knowledge of the Father was made [manifest] through Jesus Christ, when the mysteries of the holy law were narrated to the earth-born; and, that the truth of the human condition might be laid open, he added, ‘And I shall not be able to [reach] it,’ because the nature of man, which he deigned to assume, could not equal itself to the divine substance.” Peter [Lombard], bishop of Paris, in the third book of the Sentences, distinction 14, explaining this authority adduced by [his] adversaries, says: “The Soul [of Christ], through the wisdom freely given to it in the Word of God, to which it is united, knows all things which God knows — but not so clearly and perspicuously as God, whose wisdom is far more worthy, and embraces all things far more excellently and perfectly than the Soul of Christ, although that too is omniscient, nor does any thing escape it which God knows.”