MATTHEW 25:12 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.”
But he answered: truly, I say to you, I do not know you. The bridegroom's response to the late arrivals: I do not know you. The not knowing parallels the workers of iniquity whom Jesus does not know in Matthew 7:23. The knowing is the intimate relational knowledge of the covenant — the foolish virgins are strangers to the bridegroom despite their external identification.
Church Fathers on Matthew 25:12
Hom. lxxviii, In the foregoing parable the Lord set forth the punishment of the man who beat, and was drunk, and wasted his Lord’s goods; in this He declares his punishment who profits not, and does not prepare for himself abundantly the things of which he has need; for the foolish virgins had oil, but not enough.
'Then,' because all this discourse is concerning the great day of the Lord, concerning which He had been speaking before.
By 'the kingdom of heaven' is meant the present Church, as in that, 'The Son of Man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend.' [Matt 13:41]
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