Since divine knowledge encompasses whether events occur, the presence of in in divine discourse cannot establish literal ignorance or doubt on the speaker’s part. The discussion explains such cases through reported speech or interpretive reframing.
Reported speech may reproduce another speaker’s formulation. Reframing presents a known matter through a conditional hypothesis for a communicative purpose, often connected to the addressee’s standpoint.
The rhetorical appearance of uncertainty is therefore not identical to uncertainty in the speaker’s actual knowledge.