1 Thessalonians 5:7

For they that sleep, sleep in the night,.... The night is the usual season for sleep, and sleep is only for such who are in darkness, and are children of the night; and not proper to be indulged by…

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 people should be employed. Night and sleep are made for each other, and…

For they that sleep - Sleepers and drunkards seek the night season; so the careless and the profligate persons indulge their evil propensities, and avoid all means of instruction; they prefer their…

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…

For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night The "sons of day" must be wakeful and sober, for the opposite conditions belong to nightand are proper to its…