Christ's veiled answer to spare sincere followers
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Cyril is explaining why Christ, when asked about the day and hour, spoke in a veiled way rather than refusing outright.
So then, so that he would not seem in some way to grieve his sincere followers by having refused the explanation they wanted to learn, he says in a veiled way, “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels, nor the son, but only the Father” (Matthew 24:36).
Greek
ἵνα τοίνυν μὴ ἀπαγορεύσας τὴν ἐξήγησιν ὡς ἠβούλοντο
μαθεῖν, δόξῃ πως λυπεῖν τοὺς γνησιεύοντας, ἐπεσκιασμένως φησί "Περὶ δὲ τῆς ἡμέρας ἐκείνης ἢ τῆς ὥρας, οὐδεὶς οἶδεν, οὐδὲ "οἱ ἄγγελοι, οὐδὲ ὁ υἱὸς, εἰ μὴ ὁ