Christ's Infused Knowledge

Christ’s human intellect is enriched with the fullness of infused knowledge. For, by reason of thehypostatic union, the human faculties of our Lord are as perfect as such faculties can possibly be; and to have infused knowledge is a perfection of the human mind. By divinely infused knowledge, Christ as man knows all that any or all human minds can learn by the rational power (for instance, Christ perfectly knows all human sciences); he also knows all revealed truths, and all truths made known to the mind by the gifts of the Holy Ghost and the gratuitousgraces. But Christ as man knows the divine Essence, not by infusedknowledge, but by the direct and intuitive knowledge of thebeatific vision.

Since our Lord as man had the beatific vision from the beginning, He could understand in its light, without turning (as men on earth must do) to the sense-images called phantasms.

Our Lord did not need, here on earth, to thinkdiscursively, that is, to reason things out. But he could and did use the reasoning method in expressing his knowledge for the benefit of others, thus to make clear to them the logical nature ofhis teachings.

The infused knowledge possessed by Christ as man is more excellent than the knowledge possessed by the angels, and this, both in extent, and in the perfection of pure certitude. Forthe spiritual enlightenment of Christ’s human soul is more excellent, by reason of the hypostatic union, than that which is shed upon any other creature, human or angelic.

The knowledge infused into the human mind of Christ is habitual knowledge, a stable possession, to be used when he pleased.

Since Christ’s soul is a human soul with human modes of understanding, his infused knowledge is classified asconstituting distinct sciences; that is, his knowledge is an orderly knowledge of things and classes of thingsknowable.