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so then let`s not sleep, as the rest do, but let us watch and be sober.
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Commentators stress that this verse is a logical command based on a believer's identity. Because Christians are 'children of the day' (v. 5), it is unnatural for them to 'sleep' in spiritual carelessness. The exhortation is to live a life that is consistent with this new nature—one of alertness and awareness, not the indifference that characterizes 'the rest' who belong to the night.
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1 Thessalonians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Therefore let us not sleep as others do. As the wicked world does. ().
But let us watch. That is, for the coming of the Lo…
So then (αρα ουν). Two inferential particles, accordingly therefore, as in 2 Thessalonians 2:15 and only in Paul in N.…
19th Century
Anglican
Let us not sleep.—The metaphor here expresses not so much actual sin (Ephesians 5:14) as carelessness in spir…
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Baptist
But let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
Even in P…
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.…
16th Century
Protestant
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…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
13th Century
Catholic
In what he had written before, Paul corrected the Thessalonians in matters that needed improvement, and now he begins to instruct them about the fu…
