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15. The Lord’s hour and time.
Now as these things are written in the
Scriptures, the case is clear, that the saints know that a certain time
is measured to every man, but that no one knows the end of that time is
plainly intimated by the words of David, ‘Declare unto me the
shortness of my days1455
.’ What he did
not know, that he desired to be informed of. Accordingly the rich man
also, while he thought that he had yet a long time to live, heard the
words, ‘Thou fool, this night they are requiring thy soul: then
whose shall those things be which thou hast provided1456
?’ And the Preacher speaks confidently
in the Holy Spirit, and says, ‘Man also knoweth not his time1457
.’ Wherefore the Patriarch Isaac said
to his son Esau, ‘Behold, I am old, and I know not the day of my
death1458
.’ Our Lord therefore, although as God,
and the Word of the Father, He both knew the time measured out by Him
to all, and was conscious of the time for suffering, which He Himself
had appointed also to His own body; yet since He was made man for our
sakes, He hid Himself when He was sought after before that time came,
as we do; when He was persecuted, He fled; and avoiding the designs of
His enemies He passed by, and ‘so went through the midst of
them1459
.’ But when He had brought on that time
which He Himself had appointed, at which He desired to suffer in the
body for all men, He announces it to the Father, saying, ‘Father,
the hour is come; glorify Thy Son1460
.’ And
then He no longer hid Himself from those who sought Him, but stood
willing to be taken by them; for the Scripture says, He said to them
that came unto Him, ‘Whom seek ye1461
?’ and when they answered, ‘Jesus
of Nazareth,’ He saith unto them, ‘I am He whom ye
seek.’ And this He did even more than once; and so they
straightway led Him away to Pilate. He neither suffered Himself to be
taken before the time came, nor did He hide Himself when it was come;
but gave Himself up to them that conspired against Him, that He might
shew to all men that the life and death of man depend upon the divine
sentence; and that without our Father which is in heaven, neither a
hair of man’s head can become white or black, nor a sparrow ever
fall into the snare1462
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