Matthew 24:38 — Community Reflections

MATTHEW 24:38 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

“For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,”

For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark. The ordinariness of the pre-flood days — eating, drinking, marrying — is not a moral condemnation of those activities but an observation of the normalcy that characterized the period before the catastrophic interruption. The ordinary life that continued right up to the day Noah entered the ark is the parallel to the ordinary life that will characterize the period before the Son of Man's coming.

Church Fathers on Matthew 24:38

The Lord having described all the tokens that shall precede His coming, and brought His discourse to the very doors, yet would not name the day; 'Of that day and hour knoweth no man, no not the Angels Of heaven, but my Father only.'
Chrysostom · 4th century

In some Latin copies is added here, 'neither the Son:' but in the Greek copies, and particularly those of Adamantius and Pierius, it is not found. [ed. note: The addition is found in a very few Greek MSS., and ancient versions, in Chrys . and Theophylact. It is in the Old Italic version, and is acknowledged by Hilary , Ambrose , and Pseudo-Chrys .; but the preponderance of evidence is greatly against it, and it is not admitted into the text of the G. T. by any editors. It…
Jerome · 4th century

And has indeed God the Father denied the knowledge of that day to the Son, when He has declared, 'All things are committed to me of my Father?' [Luke 10:22] but if any thing has been denied, all things are not committed to Him.
Hilary of Poitiers · 4th century

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