So then (αρα ουν). Two inferential particles, accordingly therefore, as in 2 Thessalonians 2:15 and only in Paul in N.…

Therefore let us not sleep as others do. As the wicked world does. .

But let us watch. That is, for the coming of the Lord…

Let us not sleep.—The metaphor here expresses not so much actual sin (Ephesians 5:14) as carelessness in spir…

You are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do oth…

Verse 5 provides a solid basis for the ethical behavior Paul now urges on the Thessalonians. Paul calls them to a lifestyle free from moral laxity.…

Therefore let us not sleep. He adds other metaphors closely allied to the preceding one. For as he recently showed that it would by no mea…

Therefore let us not sleep as do others
&c.] As the rest of the Gentiles, as unconverted persons, who are in a state…

Most of humankind do not consider the things of another world at all, because they are asleep; or they do not consider them correctly, because they…

In what he had written before, Paul corrected the The alonians in matters that needed improvement, and now he begins to instruct them about the fut…