have perfect knowledge.

"As touching thy question, How it is that we have heard the words
of the Incarnate God, know thou that we have been taught all that
appertaineth to the divine Incarnation by the Holy Gospels, for
thus that holy book is called, because it telleth us, who are
corruptible and earthly, the `good spell' of immortality and
incorruption, of life eternal, of the remission of sins, and of
the kingdom of heaven. This book was written by the eyewitnesses
and ministers of the Word, and of these I have already said that
our Lord Jesus Christ chose them for disciples and apostles; and
they delivered it unto us in writing, after the glorious
Ascension of our Master into Heaven, a record of his life on
earth, his teachings and miracles, so far as it was possible to
commit them to writing. For thus, toward the end of his volume,
saith he that is the flower of the holy Evangelists, `And there
are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they
should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself
could not contain the books that should be written.'

"So in this heavenly Gospel, written by the Spirit of God, is
recorded the history of his Incarnation, his manifestation, his
miracles and acts. Afterward, it telleth of the innocent
suffering which the Lord endured for our sake, of his holy
Resurrection on the third day, his Ascent into the heavens, and
of his glorious and dreadful second coming; for the Son of God
shall come again on earth, with unspeakable glory, and with a
multitude of the heavenly host to judge our race, and to reward
every man according to his works. For, at the beginning, God
created man out of earth, as I have already told thee, and