According to those holding to Chalcedonian theology, how did Jesus increase in wisdom?
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In Luke 2:52 it states:
> And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and
> man.
Did Jesus, as a young child, deliberately conceal his Divinity by not accessing the epistemological data of the universe & beyond so that he could participate in the human joy of book learning?
For example, he might have read books that his parents got for him from the library of Alexandria in Egypt. Over in another discussion somebody speculated that the gold from the wisemen (sages) could have been used to buy books while the family was in Egypt. Are their commentaries that suggest such a thing took place?
The Bible says in Philippians 2:5-11 about Jesus:
> Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God
> something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very
> nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in
> appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death--
> even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
> and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of
> Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the
> earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the
> glory of God the Father.
Would the work of the Holy Spirit, in Jesus’ incarnation, inform his human nature when and where to access the mind behind the universe - that is, the Logos? When studying, would the role of the Holy Spirit put a check in his human nature when reading things that were untrue?
I would love to hear from those attempting to figure this out especially via classical Christianity along the lines of Chalcedonian Christology.
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