1. Hepi ruv xfovuv, of the times) When these things shall happen, which I have mentioned. Kaipoi, seasons, are parts xpovuv, of the times.1 — ou x>fs'av *%sr2> ye nav^ n° need) Those who watch do not require to be told when the hour will come ; for they are always ready.
2. 'rig xXtrtrqg, as a thief) 2 Pet. iii. 10. A usual expression with the apostles, agreeing with the parable of the Lord, Matt, xxiv. 43. — sv wxrt, in the night) Refer those words to a thief, just now mentioned [not, the day of the Lord cometh in the night ; but, as a thief cometh in the night]. The night is there, where there is unconcern and quiet ; comp. however, Matt. xxv. 6.2 — ovrus) so, as we shall describe in the following verse. Comp. so after3 for, Matt. i. 18, [" The birth of Christ was so ; for when His mother Mary was espoused," etc. : o-Jrwj %v. ^vjOTtufaiffris yap, etc.] — spiral, comes) The present expressing a sudden event with great emphasis. So ver. 3, Sudden destruction cometh ; comp. Luke xxi. 34.
3. Aeyufftv, they say) all the others (the rest, o/ XO/TO/), who are of darkness, ver. 5, 6 [ch. iv. 13]. — e/pqvq xai aapdXsia, peace and safety) They will regard it as an established fact, that the world is eternal.
gives the notion of indefinite time ;. Katpog, the time, the op portune point of time, when a thing should be done. Ammonius says well, o Koupo; indicates quality (KOIOTYITOI) of time ; and xpovos, quantity (iroffo- TTiroi). — ED.
2 " At midnight there was a cry made, Behold the Bridegroom cometh ;" which seems to imply that it shall not be merely in a figurative, but in a literal sense, that the Lord shall come in the night. — ED.
8 Here, however, yap, for, is thought to be better omitted by the margin of both Ed. The Germ. Vers., for the sake of connection, puts nemlich. — E. B.
AG/£, Iren. 329, Cypr. 326, and Syr. Version, omit yxp, and so Tisch. Lachm. reads Sg, with BD(A), Memph. and later Syr. Rec. Text reads with Vulg.— ED.