{"id":2318,"date":"2012-12-08T18:17:33","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T01:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plgo.org\/?p=2318"},"modified":"2012-12-08T18:17:33","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T01:17:33","slug":"gumerlock-mark-1332-and-christs-supposed-ignorance-four-patristic-solutions-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/plgo.org\/?p=2318","title":{"rendered":"Gumerlock. Mark 13:32 and Christ\u2019s Supposed Ignorance:  Four Patristic Solutions. 2007."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Trinity Journal 28 (2007):205-213<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Mark 13:32 and Christ\u2019s Supposed Ignorance:<br \/>\nFour Patristic Solutions<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>THE PROBLEM OF CHRIST\u2019S SUPPOSED IGNORANCE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Referring to the time of His Second Coming, Jesus is recorded as saying, \u201cBut of<br \/>\nthat day or hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father<br \/>\nalone\u201d (Mark 13:32, NASB. The word alone is italicized because it was supplied by the<br \/>\ntranslator). The church fathers spilled much ink explaining this statement of the Lord,<br \/>\nmost often because of its import regarding Christology.2 Since the passage allegedly<br \/>\npresents Christ as ignorant, the Arians of the early church, who denied that the Son was<br \/>\nconsubstantial with the Father, used it as a proof-text for their belief in a less-than-divine<br \/>\nSon of God.3 On the other hand, those who held to Nicene orthodoxy and believed that<br \/>\nJesus was fully God and possessed all the attributes of divinity, including omniscience,<br \/>\nresponded to the Arians with Colossians 3:2, \u201cIn Him are all the treasures of wisdom and<br \/>\nknowledge.\u201d The adherents of Nicene orthodoxy, besides asserting Christ\u2019s omniscience,<br \/>\nalso had to make sense out of Mark 13:32, which seemed to teach that Jesus was ignorant<br \/>\nof at least one detail concerning the future, i.e. the time of His return. To solve the<br \/>\ntheological dilemma of the omniscient Son of God not knowing the time of His own<br \/>\nSecond Coming, the church fathers proposed a variety of explanations. This article<br \/>\npresents and evaluates four of their solutions\u2014the philological solution of Basil of<br \/>\nCaesarea, two \u201cfigures of speech\u201d solutions offered by Augustine of Hippo and Gregory<br \/>\nof Tours respectively, and the anthropological solution of Athanasius of Alexandria.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Article kindly provided by Francis X. Gumerlock, through <a href=\"http:\/\/francisgumerlock.com\/articles\/#Mark\" target=\"_blank\">his website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trinity Journal 28 (2007):205-213 Mark 13:32 and Christ\u2019s Supposed Ignorance: Four Patristic Solutions THE PROBLEM OF CHRIST\u2019S SUPPOSED IGNORANCE Referring to the time of His Second Coming, Jesus is recorded as saying, \u201cBut of that day or hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,16,17,12,14,15],"tags":[86,254,61],"class_list":["post-2318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-graeca","category-latina","category-patrologia","category-sites","category-studiamonographiae","tag-early-fathers","tag-francis-x-gumerlock","tag-patristics-related-theme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/plgo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/plgo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/plgo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/plgo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/plgo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/plgo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2319,"href":"http:\/\/plgo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions\/2319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/plgo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/plgo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/plgo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}