variety. He speaks most humbly in this passage, and thereby qualifies [modifies] the feeling of His glory, which His discourse concerning the judgment was carrying with it. You may say, Why is He in this passage called the Son, a denomination which is not taken from His human nature ? The answer is : In enunciations concerning the Saviour, He is wont to join a lowly Subject with a glorious Predicate : Matt. xvi. 28 ; John i. 51, iii. 13 ; and vice versa, a glorious Subject (as here) with a lowly Predicate : Matt. xxi. 3 ; 1 Cor. ii. 8 ; moreover, in this passage, the Son is in antithesis to the Father. — £/' /^ 6 Tlaryp, but the Father) Illustrating the great glory of His omniscience. Comp. Acts i. 7.
[34. 'aj £f4fttv*e) D. Hauber has ably proved that this pas sage is parallel, not to Matt. xxv. 14, but to ch. xxiv. 45. — Harm., p. 484], — rr,v e^ovffiav, authority) This He gave to His servants conjointly, as is evident from the antithesis, and to every man) x.ai sxdsru. The authority so assigned was a great authority : Matt. xxi. 33. — xa!) also [even]. — r& Svpwpti, to the porter) [He gave charge], inasmuch as the porter is one who keeps watch even for others, and whose duty it is to rouse them up.
35. TpqyopiTri, watch) Watchfulness, the foundation of all duties, is enjoined not only on the porter, but on all the servants. — /AtaowxTiou, at midnight) Matt. xxv. 6.
37. Ilaffi, unto all) Even to those of after ages. [fy*fy unto you) In antithesis to vaci, viz., the Apostles, and their contem poraries. — V. g.]