Now our Saviour, in way of answer unto this question, layeth down both the certainty and the uncertainty of his second coming: the certainty, that it shall be; the uncertainty when it shall be. That, which is wont to be said of the day of Death, being no less true of the day of Doom;f There is nothing more certain, and yet nothing more uncertain: gNothing more certain than that it shall be: as sure, we use to say, as Death; and may well say, as Doom: Forh Heaven and earth (saith our Saviour) shall pass away, but so shall not my word. And yeti nothing more uncertain than when it shall be. For,k Of that day and hour knoweth no man ought, no nor the Angels in heaven, nor the Son (l as he wasm then) himself.
Now our Saviour, in way of answer unto this question, layeth downe both the certaintie and the uncertaintie of his second comming: the certaintie, that it shall be; the uncertaintie when it shall be. That, which is wont to be said of the day of Death, being no lesse true of the day of Doome;f There is nothing more certaine, and yet nothing more uncertaine: gNothing more certaine than that it shall be: as sure, wee use to say, as Death; and may well say, as Doome: Forh Heaven and earth (saith our Saviour) shall passe away, but so shall not my word. And yeti nothing more uncertaine than when it shall be. For,k Of that day and houre knoweth no man ought, no nor the Angels in heaven, nor the Sonne (l as hee wasm then) himselfe.
- fNihil certius; nihil incertius. Bern. de Coena Dom. ser. 2. & medit. c. 3. & epist. 105.
- gCaetera nostra & bona & mala incerta sunt: sola mors certa est. Aug verb. Dom. 21. incerta omnia: sola mors certa, cujus etiam hora incerta est, Idem in Psal. 38.
- hMark. 13.31. Mat. 24.35.
- iPoena certa, hora incerta: mors certa, dies mortis incertus, Aug. ibid.
- kMark. 13.32. Mat. 24.36.
- l[Greek or Hebrew]. Greg. Naz. ad Eunom. serm. 4. & ex eo Eulogius cont. Agnoitas apud Photium biblioth. cod. 230. [Greek or Hebrew]. Ephrem. ad Anatol. quaest. 1. Secundum sormam servi, Aug. de Trin. l. 1. c. 12. In statu humiliationis, Vorst. apolog. disp. 2. §. 33. Parum enim solidum, quod Aug. in Psal. 36. & in Gen. contra Manich. l. 1. c. 32. & 83. quaest. 60. sed & de Trinit. l. 1. c. 12. nescit, i. nescire facit. Neque firmum satis quod Greg. Rom. l 8. epist. 42. & Cyril. thesaur. l 9 c. 4. In humanitate norat; sed ex humanitate non norat.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Greg. Naz. ad Eunom. serm. 4. & ex eo Eulogius cont. Agnoitas apud Photium biblioth. cod. 230. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Ephrem. ad Anatol. quaest. 1. Secundum sormam servi, Aug. de Trin. l. 1. c. 12. In statu humiliationis, Vorst. apolog. disp. 2. §. 33. Parum enim solidum, quod Aug. in Psal. 36. & in Gen. contra Manich. l. 1. c. 32. & 83. quaest. 60. sed & de Trinit. l. 1. c. 12. nescit, i. nescire facit. Neque firmum satis quod Greg. Rom. l 8. epist. 42. & Cyril. thesaur. l 9 c. 4. In humanitate norat; sed ex humanitate non norat.
- mQuod ante passionem nescit, post resurrectionem novit, Chrysost. in
