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For those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunken are drunken in the night.
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Actions Should Match Your Identity
Commentators explain that Paul uses a simple, everyday observation: people sleep and get drunk at night. He uses this to create a spiritual contrast. Just as these activities belong to the physical night, spiritual apathy and sinful indulgence belong to the world's spiritual darkness. Christians, as 'children of the day,' are called to live lives of alertness and sobriety that reflect the light they live in.
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1 Thessalonians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For they that sleep, sleep in the night. Night is the time for sleep. The day is the time for action, and in the light of day men should b…
They that be drunken are drunken in the night (ο μεθυσκομενο νυκτος μεθυουσιν). No need of "be" here, they that are drunken. No re…
19th Century
Anglican
Those who sleep...—As the connection of sleep with night has already been sufficiently worked out, and is not touched upon again i…
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Baptist
For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
There are a few who have reached such a …
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.…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For they that sleep, sleep in the night The night is the usual season for sleep, and sleep is only for such who are …
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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…
