And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
Ver. 6. There was a cry made] By the trumpet of the archangel, a and the voice of God, say some interpreters; and Jerome reports it for an apostolic tradition that Christ shall come at midnight. But of that hour no man knoweth, saith the Judge himself. Others there are that expound this cry of the preaching of the gospel, according to that voice of the crier, "Prepare ye the way of the Lord," &c., Matthew 3:3; And here- clames ut stentora vincas, Cry aloud, spare not, &c.
a Recte ad Archangeli vocem referetur. Aret.