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St. Thomas answers that there was not, proving this from what He
had already said about the fullness of grace and knowledge in
Christ,[1348] where the following words of the Evangelist are
explained: "We saw His glory, the glory as it were of the
only-begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth."[1349]
There could not have been either error or ignorance in Him who said:
"'I am the way and the truth, and the life."[1350]
Ignorance is a privation of that which a person ought to have, and so
it is opposed to simple nescience, or simple negation or absence of
knowledge, as in a child who is not yet capable of knowing. Thus in
Christ there was a certain nescience as regards His acquired
knowledge, in which He made progress, as stated above.[1351]
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