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Mat_24:43. But (that I may show you by means of a warning example how you may risk your salvation by allowing yourselves to be betrayed into a state of unpreparedness) know this, that if, etc.
ὁ οἰκοδεσπότης ] the particular one whom the thief has anticipated.
εἰ ᾔδει … ἐγρηγόρησεν ἄν ] if he had been aware at what watch in the night the thief comes, to break into his house, he would have watched. But as he does not know the hour which the thief chooses (it being different in different cases), he is found off his guard when the burglary is being committed. The rendering vigilaret (Luther, Kuinoel, Bleek, after the Vulg.) is incorrect. For the illustration of the thief, comp. 1Th_5:2; 1Th_5:4; 2Pe_3:10; Rev_3:3; Rev_16:15.