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Mark 13:36 — King James Version← Study notes

Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.


Mark 13:36Greek Interlinear

Greek · Mark 13:366 words
GreekMeaning
μὴ
lestwordG3361
ἐλθὼνelthōn
having comeverbG2064
ἐξαίφνηςexaiphnēs
suddenlyadverbG1810
εὕρῃheurē
he may findverbG2147
ὑμᾶςhymas
youpronounG4771
καθεύδονταςkatheudontas
sleepingverbG2518
Greek text from the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT). Transliteration follows SBL Academic conventions.

Church Fathers on Mark 13:36

The Lord wishing to prevent His disciples from asking about that day and hour, says, 'But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.'

Theophylact · 11th century

This ignorance of the day and hour is urged against the Only-Begotten God, as if, God born of God had not the same perfection of nature as God. But first, let common sense decide whether it is credible that He, who is the cause that all things are, and are to be, should be ignorant of any out of all these things. For how can it be beyond the knowledge of that nature, by which and in which that which is to be done is contained? And can He be ignorant of that day, which is the…

Hilary of Poitiers · 4th century · de Trin., ix

For we must needs watch with our souls before the death of the body.

Pseudo-Jerome · 5th century
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