MATTHEW 25:13 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.”
Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour. The watch-therefore conclusion of the ten virgins parable: the unknown day and hour require the ongoing watchfulness that the extra oil represents. The parable's lesson is not to calculate the timing but to maintain the resource that enables sustained readiness.
Church Fathers on Matthew 25:13
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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