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The answer of St. Thomas: "The knowledge imprinted on the soul of
Christ was habitual, for He could use it when He pleased." The
reason is that this knowledge was in Him according to the connatural
mode of the human soul, which is to receive knowledge as a habit that
can be used at will. Thus Christ's infused knowledge was univocal to
our knowledge, as stated in the argument and counter-argument of this
article, though it was not univocal in species but in the genus of
knowledge.
Reply to first objection. This infused knowledge of Christ was
inferior to that of the beatific vision, for this latter was always
actual with respect to everything He knew in this way; nevertheless it
seems that Christ's infused knowledge always actually knew certain
objects even when He was asleep, during which times He could merit.
Thus Christ's soul in this way always knew itself.
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