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What the Fathers say

Revelation 5:12

Eastern Fathers

Oecumenius

The song of the angels attributes seven different honors to Christ, indicating through the seven that Christ ought to be crowned with countless praises.

Commentary on Revelation ↗

Western Saints

Bonaventure

Apocalypse 5: Worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive wisdom; the Gloss: "The knowledge of all things, just as the Word united to Him"; but the united Word comprehends whatever it knows: therefore so does the soul of Christ. To that which is objected, that the soul of Christ has all knowledge just as the Word united to it has: it can be said that those things are said of the assumed man on account of the communication of idioms; or certainly they are said of those things which are, were, and will be, which indeed can be …

Quaestiones Disputatae, De Scientia Christi, Question 7 ↗