The Son And Knowledge

Et scimus quoniam Filius Dei venit....  Quid enim apertius his verbis? Quid dulcius? Quid adversus omnes haereses fortius potuit dici? Christus est verus Dei Filius. Pater Christi Jesu Domini nostri verus est Deus. Venit Filius Dei sempiternus temporaliter in mundum, qui erat in mundo, et per quem factus est mundus. Neque aliam ob causam venit nisi nostrae salutis, hoc est, ut daret nobis sensum cognoscere verum Deum. Nemo enim sine divina cognoscere verum Deum, nemo Deum cognescere nisi ipse docente poterat: sicut et ipse dicit: Et nemo novit Filium nisi Pater, neque Patrem quis novit nisi Filius, et cui voluerit Filius revelare. Subauditur: Et Patrem et Filium. Utrumque enim Filius revelat, qui, in carne visibilis apparens, divinitatis arcana per Evangelium suum modo patefacere dignatus est. Sanctus Beda, In I Epistolam Sancti Joannis Source: Migne PL 93.120a-b

And we know that the Son Of God has come... 1 What indeed is more frank than these words? What is more sweet? What was able to be said more powerfully against heretics? Christ is the true Son of God. The Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is the true God. The eternal Son of God came for a time into the world, He who was in the world and through whom it was made. 2 And He came for no other cause but for our Salvation, that is, that He give us the ability to know the true God. For no one without the Divine knows the true God, no one knows God unless that same One has taught him, as even He said: 'And no one knows the Son unless the Father, nor knows the Father unless the Son, and him to whom the Son choses to reveal Him.' 3 Which understand: Both the Father and the Son. For both the Son reveals, He who, in the visible flesh appearing, the secrets of divinity through His Gospel deigned to reveal. Saint Bede, Commentary On The First Letter of Saint John 1 1 Jn 5.20 2 Jn 1.10 3 Lk 10.22