Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxix Pg 24
Luke xii. 39.
How can the Creator wear in any way the aspect of a thief, Lord as He is of all mankind? No one pilfers or plunders his own property, but he4673 4673 Sed ille potius.
rather acts the part of one who swoops down on the things of another, and alienates man from his Lord.4674 4674 A censure on Marcion’s Christ.
Again, when He indicates to us that the devil is “the thief,” whose hour at the very beginning of the world, if man had known, he would never have been broken in upon4675 4675 Suffossus.
by him, He warns us “to be ready,” for this reason, because “we know not the hour when the Son of man shall come”4676 4676
Edersheim Bible History
Lifetimes ix.xiii Pg 47.1
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 12
VERSE (39) - Mt 24:43,44 1Th 5:2,3 2Pe 3:10 Re 3:3; 16:15