Putting on the breastplate of faith and love (ενδυσαμενο θωρακα πιστεως κα αγαπης). First aorist (ingressive) middle participle of…

But let us who are of the day, be sober. Temperate, as is common in the daytime.

Putting on the breast-plate of faith and love<…

Putting on.—A curiously abrupt transition, suggested by the sober vigilance just advocated. The Christian must be careful to watch…

But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.

Paul now resumes his exhortation but drops for the moment the need for alertness, speaking only of sobriety as a countermeasure against “spiritual”…

Having put on the breastplate. He adds this so that he may more effectively shake us out of our complacency, for he calls us, so to speak,…

But let us, who are of the day, be sober
As in body, so in mind; let us cast off the works of darkness, and have no …

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…