The End That Never Came? C.S. Lewis on the Bible's Most Embarrassing Verse

An article by John Nelson, published by the C.S. Lewis Institute, a Christian discipleship and apologetics ministry, giving its own account of C.S. Lewis's essay "The World's Last Night." Read here directly for its own statement that Lewis identified Mark 13:30, the Gospel parallel to Matthew 24:34's "this generation will not pass away," as what Lewis himself called "the most embarrassing verse in the Bible," and for its account of Lewis's own argument: that Jesus's confession of ignorance fourteen words later, "of that day and hour knoweth no man," standing beside the apparently mistaken near-term prediction, demonstrates the honesty of the Gospel writers and the genuine human limitation of the incarnation rather than a failed prophecy quietly edited away. A modern instance of the tradition engaging its own difficult text openly rather than defensively.