And this know, that if the owner of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have allowed his house to be broken through.
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
In the next parable also he makes a flagrant mistake, when he assigns to the person of the Creator that "thief, whose hour, if the father of the family had only known, he would not have suffered his house to be broken through."