4636. The Lord used this parable to describe His own coming. This is clear from every detail in it as well as from the final sentence where He says, 'Watch therefore, for you do not know the day, nor the hour, in which the Son of Man will be coming' - words similar to those used in Chapter 24, where He makes a like explicit reference to His coming,
Watch therefore, for you do not know at what hour your Lord will be coming. Matt 24:42.
It has been shown already that His coming is the close of the age or the final period of the Church.
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