Watch therefore
In ordinances, in prayer, public and private, in hearing the
word, at the Lord's supper, and in every religious exercise; over
the heart, the thoughts and affections of it; over words,
actions, life, and conversation; and against all sin and
unbelief, Satan's temptations, the world, and its charms and
snares, false teachers, and their doctrines, and for the
bridegroom's coming. This is the use and application of the whole
parable, and shows the general design of it; the reason to
enforce watchfulness follows:
for ye know neither the day nor the hour;
of death, or of judgment, or of the coming of the son of man, of
one or the other; for it is added,
wherein the son of man cometh:
that he will come is certain, and that quickly; the time is
fixed, but when it will be is unknown; and therefore it becomes
us to be our watch and guard. This last clause is not in the
Vulgate Latin, nor in the Syriac, Arabic, Persic, and Ethiopic
versions, and was wanting in three of Beza's copies, but is in
most Greek copies, and in Munster's Hebrew Gospel, and seems to
be necessary.