Matthew 24:36 Douay-Rheims

But of that day and hour no one knoweth, not the angels of heaven, but the Father alone.

Jerome

c. A.D. 347–420 Patristic

Having then shewn that the Son of God cannot be ignorant of the day of the consummation, we must now shew a cause why He should be said to be ignorant. When after the resurrection He is demanded concerning this day by the Apostles, He answers more openly; It is not for you to know the times or the seasons which the Father has put in his own power. (Acts 1:7.) Wherein He shews that Himself knows, but that it was not expedient for the Apostles to know, that being in uncertainty of the coming of their Judge, they should live every day as though they were to be judged that day.

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A.D. 420 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 24:36-41

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