they were made.
Ib.
Of that day, and that hour knoweth no man, no not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
I cannot explain myself here; but I have long thought that our Saviour meant in these words
—and that like the problem proposed by him to the Scribes, they were intended to prepare the minds of the disciples for this awful mystery—
—"unless, or if not, as the Father knows it;" while in St. Matthew the equivalent sense is given by the omission of the