John Trapp on 1 Corinthians 8:2

Verſe 2. If any man think] This one thing I know, that I know nothing, ſaid Socrates. Neither know I this yet, that I know nothing, ſaith another. Though I know my ſelf ignorant of many things (ſaith a third) Yet I dare boldly profeſſe with Origen, Ignorantiam meam non ignoro, I am not ignorant that I am ignorant. The greateſt part of our knowledge is but the leaſt part of our ignorance. And yet how apt are we to think we know all that's knowable: as in Alcibiades his Army all would be leaders, none learners. Epicurus ſaid, that he was the firſt man that ever diſcovered truth, and yet in many things he was more blinde then a Beetle. Aratus the Aſtrologer vaunted, Aug. de civ. Dei, l. 16. that he had counted the ſtars, and written of them all. Hoc ego primus vidi, ſaid Zabarell. And Laurentius Valla boaſted, that there was no. Logick worthy to be read but his, which therefore he called,Joh. Manl [illegible: 1 letter]ae. com. Logicans Laurentinam.