“God knows himself and the world, both by knowing himself. He knows himself intuitively and perfectly. He knows the world also by knowing himself: he knows what is possible in the world by knowing his own powers; and he knows what is actual in the world (at all times) by knowing his own eternal plan, as well as by his perfect awareness of the accomplishment of that plan. In other words, he does not depend on the creation for his knowledge even of the creation. His knowledge is exhaustive and perfect, because it is a se.”
—John Frame, “Divine Aseity and Apologetics,” in Oliphint, Scott K., and Lane G. Tipton, Revelation and Reason; New Essays in Reformed Apologetics, (Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian and Reformed, 2007), 121
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