' Basing their view on this text and Jn. xi. 34, the Agnoetae (6th-8th century)
put a limit to Christ's knowledge. Gregory the Great argues against them, "For
with what meaning can one that confesses iJiat the very Wisdom of God was incar-
nate say that there is anything that the Wisdom of God is ignorant of?" Ep. x.
xxix. N.P-NF (2d Ser.) XIII. 48. See the answers to three propositions given by
the Holy office June 6, 1918 (Acta Apostolicae Sedis, IJul. (1918) 282).
^ Concerning this passage Holtzmann writes, " This is the single passage in which
the Son while opposed along with the angels to the Father, appears to become a
metaphysical magnitude" (Lehrbuch der ntl. Theol. I. 268, note 2).
* Cf. Bartmann: Christus ein Gegner des MarienkultusP 104.
' In Mark iii. 21, it is said that Christ's friends wanted to lay hold on Him saying
He was mad. This shows that they could not account for His miracles and wisdom,
and that neither His eaucation, nor meditation, nor the natural means which they
know, accounted for them. Thus it agrees with Lk. ii. £0.
