Lucas 2

Lucas 2

Poole adds that “If any ask how He who was the eternal wisdom of the Father, who is the only one God, increased in wisdom, they must know that all things in Scripture which are spoken of Christ, are not spoken with respect to His entire Person, but with respect to the one or other nature united in that Person. He increased in wisdom, as He did in age or stature, with respect to His human, not His divine nature. And as God daily magnified His grace and favor towards him, so He gained Him favor with the unrighteous and people of Galilee.” Jesus kept increasing (prokopto) in wisdom (sophia) - "The imperfect tense suggests something of a progressive force to the verb." (NET Note) A T