“This is impossible.  He was silent concerning the season of the judgment, because it was not expedient for men to hear.  Constant expectation kindles a warmer zeal for true religion.  The knowledge that a long interval of time was to elapse would have made men more careless about true religion, from the hope of being saved by a subsequent change of life.  How could He who had known everything up to this time (for so He said) not know that hour also?  If so, the Apostle vainly said ‘In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.’ Col. ii. 3.