But of that day, and of that hour
Of Jerusalem's destruction; for of nothing else had Christ been
speaking; and, it is plain, the words are anaphorical, and relate
to what goes before:
knoweth no man;
nay, they that lived to see it, and have spoken of it, are not
agreed about the particular day, when it was; much less did they
know it beforehand, or could speak of it, and make it known to
others:
no, not the angels which are in heaven;
who are acquainted with many of the divine secrets, and have been
employed in the imparting them to others, and in the executing
divine purposes:
neither the Son;
Christ, as the son of man; though he did know it as the Son of
God, who knows all things, and so this; but as the son of man,
and from his human nature he had no knowledge of any thing
future: what knowledge he had of future things in his humanity,
he had from his deity; nor, as man, had he any commission to make
known, nor did he make known the day of God's vengeance on the
Jews:
but the Father;
who has the times and seasons in his own power, for the executing
of any particular judgment on a nation, or the general one;
(See Gill on Matthew
24:36).