Acts 1:7

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And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father has put in his own power.

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Clement Of Alexandria

AD 215

Quanquam haec quoque dicuntur allegorice. Propterea nec "tempora "prae finiit, "quge Pater posuit in sua potestate"

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Cyprian of Carthage

AD 258

Also in the Acts of the Apostles: "No one can know the times or the seasons which the Father has placed in His own power."

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Erasmus of Rotterdam

AD 1536

And yet, even in the meantime a spiritual kingdom will thrust itself forth. In vindicating and protecting this kingdom, God demands their service, as for the rewards, let them be his concern. So they are to give up their desiree to know what they should not know; prepare themselves for events that lie at hand.

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Gregory The Dialogist

AD 604

As it is not for us to know the times or the seasons which the Father hath put in His own power,

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Irenaeus of Lyons

AD 202

It was necessary, therefore, that the Lord, coming to the lost sheep, and making recapitulation of so comprehensive a dispensation, and seeking after His own handiwork, should save that very man who had been created after His image and likeness, that is, Adam, filling up the times of His condemnation, which had been incurred through disobedience,-

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Jerome

AD 420

It was not expedient for the Apostles to know, that being in uncertainty of the coming of their Judge, they should live every day as though they were to be judged that day.

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Oecumenius

AD 990

He assures us that nothing which takes place is the effect of accident or chance or destiny, since all things the Father has put in His own power.

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Thomas Aquinas

AD 1274

Now the Holy Spirit taught the apostles all truth in respect of matters necessary for salvation; those things, to wit, that we are bound to believe and to do. But He did not teach them about all future events.

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