2.  It would be worthy of your diligence to set the phrases of the Gospel side by side, and compare together those of Matthew and those of Mark, for these two alone are found in concurrence in this passage.  The wording of Matthew is “of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.” Matt. xxiv. 36.  R.V. in this passage inserts “Neither the Son,” on the authority of א, B. D.  Plainly St. Basil knew no such difference of reading.  On the general view taken by the Fathers on the self-limitation of the Saviour, cf. C. Gore’s Bampton Lectures (vi. p. 163, and notes 48 and 49, p. 267).  That of Mark runs, “But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.” Mark xiii. 32.  What is noticeable in these passages is this; that Matthew says nothing about the ignorance of the Son, and seems to agree with Mark as to sense in saying “but my Father only.”  Now I understand the word “only” to have been used in contradistinction to the angels, but that the Son is not included with His own servants in ignorance.