For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.
The adoption, from the very beginning of Christianity, of this same expression, used in the sense of the day of Jesus Christ, shows how universally the early church accepted Jesus as co-equal with God. Thus, as Gloag put it, "The day of the Lord here means not the destruction of Jerusalem, nor the day of one's death, but the day of the Lord's advent."[6]