The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
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Gill's Exposition
The night is far spent,.... Not of Jewish darkness, which was gone, and was succeeded by the Gospel day; nor of former ignorance in Gentilism and unregeneracy, for that was past, and the true light…
Barnes' Notes
The night - The word “night,” in the New Testament, is used to denote “night” literally (Mat 2:14, etc.); the starry heavens Rev 8:12; and then it denotes a state of “ignorance” and “crime,” and is…
Adam Clarke
The night is far spent - If we understand this in reference to the heathen state of the Romans, it may be paraphrased thus: The night is far spent - heathenish darkness is nearly at an end. The day is…
We are here taught a lesson of sobriety and godliness in ourselves. Our main care must be to look to ourselves. Four things we are here taught, as a Christian's directory for his day's work: when to…
Cambridge Bible
The night is far spent Lit. The night was far spent. The Gr. verb is in the aorist; and the time-reference is, very probably, to the First Advent, when the Morning Star (Rev 22:16) of the final Day…
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