Annotation CXXXIX

”And his parents knew [it] not.” — Luke 2:43

Whether Mary always recognized Christ to be God.

Euthymius, in the commentaries on Luke, expounds this passage thus: “According to divine providence this happened, lest Joseph and his mother should hinder him as [being] a boy and unlettered.” Noting these words, the scholiast of Euthymius writes this: “From these words, and at the same time from those which are had a little after upon that word, ‘And seeing him, they were astonished,’ it appears that the author holds that the Virgin at this time did not know Jesus to have been God.” Yet he [Euthymius] does not hold so — which is clear from his exposition of that saying, “And his mother kept all these words, pondering [them] in her heart,” which follows a little after the aforesaid. Read the following Annotation.