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But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.
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Verse 39. Some have imagined that the devil, our implacable enemy, is designated by the thief, and our souls by the house, and man by the householder: yet this interpretation does not agree with what follows; for the coming of our Lord is compared to the thief, as if surprising us on a sudden. This latter opinion, therefore, seems to be the more probable one. Theophylactus.
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