210. Therefore I have said that it was not
to our advantage to know; nay, it is to our advantage to be ignorant,
that through ignorance we might fear, through watchfulness be
corrected, as He Himself said: “Be ye ready, for ye know
not at what hour the Son of Man cometh.” S. Matt. xxiv. 44. For the soldier does not know
how to watch in the camp unless he knows that war is at
hand.