Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
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Gill's Exposition
Therefore let us not sleep as do others.... As the rest of the Gentiles, as unconverted persons, who are in a state of darkness, and are children of the night; let us not act that part they do, or be…
Barnes' Notes
Therefore let us no sleep, as do others - As the wicked world does; compare notes, Mat 25:5. But let us watch - That is, for the coming of the Lord. Let us regard it as an event which is certainly to…
Adam Clarke
Let us not sleep, as do others - Let us who are of the day - who believe the Gospel and belong to Christ, not give way to a careless, unconcerned state of mind, like to the Gentiles and sinners in…
On what had been said, the apostle grounds seasonable exhortations to several needful duties.
I. To watchfulness and sobriety, Th1 5:6. These duties are distinct, yet they mutually befriend one…
Cambridge Bible
Therefore More exactly, Accordingly then. The double conjunction here employed is an idiom peculiar to St Paul, which appears once in 2 Thess. (ch. 1Th 2:15), eight times in Romans, and twice besides…
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