What does 1 Thessalonians 5:7 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night."
Verse 7. _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 prefe...
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 s...
V. THE DAY OF THE LORD AND EXHORTATIONS CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The day of the Lord 1 Thessalonians 5:1)_ 2. Exhortations 1 Thessalonians 5:12) 3. Conclusions 1 Thessalonians 5:23) 1 Thessalonians 5:1 “Bu...
PAUL'S WARNING TO THE CHRISTIANS TO BE PREPARED FOR THE PAROUSIA. 1 Thessalonians 5:2. as a thief in the night: _ cf._ the words of Jesus (Matthew 24:43). Throughout this paragraph the suddenness of...
You have no need, brothers, that anything should be written to you about the times and seasons; for you yourselves well know that, as a thief in the night, so the day of the Lord comes. When they are...
Section VI. (continued): 1 Thessalonians 5:1 The first part of this Chapter stands in close connection with the last six verses of ch. 4. Together they form the most distinctive and the weightiest se...
§ 9. 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11. The Coming of the Day The second misgiving of the Thessalonians respecting the παρουσία (see _Introd._ to § 8, and general _Introd._ p. xxxvi.) was closely connected with...
ΚΑΘΕΎΔΟΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. от_ КАΘΕΎΔΩ (G2518) спать, ΝΥΚΤΌΣ _gen. sing. от_ ΝΎΞ (G3571) ночь; _gen._ времени: "ночью". _Gen._ обозначает время, в которое происходит что-л.: "ночное действие" (МТ...
DISCOURSE: 2203 WATCHFULNESS ENJOINED 1 Thessalonians 5:1. _Of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so co...
TEXT (1 Thessalonians 5:6-7) 6 SO THEN LET US NOT SLEEP, AS DO THE REST, BUT LET US WATCH AND BE SOBER. 7 FOR THEY THAT SLEEP SLEEP IN THE NIGHT; AND THEY THAT ARE DRUNKEN ARE DRUNKEN IN THE NIGHT....
For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. In the literal sense. Night is the time when sleepers sleep, and drinking men are drunk. To sleep by day w...
THE LORD'S PRESENCE THOSE DROWSING THOSE DROWSING 4 The day of the Lord with its terrors and destruction is not for us. The cry of "peace and security" should not lull us to sleep. We should be on t...
THE NEED OF WATCHFULNESS. FINAL INJUNCTIONS 1. Times and seasons] St. Paul always lays stress on the uncertainty as to the TIME of the Advent (2 Thessalonians 2:2 cp. 2 Peter 3:3)....
WHEN JESUS CHRIST COMES 1 THE THESSALONIANS _IAN MACKERVOY_ A word list is at the end. It explains words with a *star by them. CHAPTER 5 WHEN THE *LORD WILL COME 5:1-11 V1 Now, brothers and si...
THEY THAT SLEEP.... — As the connection of sleep with night has already been sufficiently worked out, and is not touched upon again in 1 Thessalonians 5:8, the first clause seems only to be inserted f...
CHAPTER 12 THE DAY OF THE LORD 1 Thessalonians 5:1 (R.V.) THE last verses of the fourth chapter perfect that which is lacking, on one side, in the faith of the Thessalonians. The Apostle addresses h...
περὶ τῶν χρόνων καὶ τῶν καιρῶν....
READY FOR “THE DAY OF THE LORD” 1 Thessalonians 5:1 To the Apostle “the day of the Lord” was near. He expected it in his lifetime, and if we remember that the Lord's words with reference to it were...
Under the figure of a camp in which fully armed soldiers are waiting for the break of day, while those not expecting this are sleeping and drunken, the apostle shows that those waiting for the Son are...
ENCOURAGEMENT TO WATCHFULNESS Sinful people, in contrast, are part of the kingdom of darkness. Those without a hope of being raised from the dead are like a guard who sleeps on duty. Instead of being...
(4) But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. (5) Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. (6...
There is a special interest in examining the epistles to the Thessalonians, more particularly the first, because, in point of fact, it was the earliest of the letters of the apostles; and as the first...
The Lord's coming again into this world assumes therefore a very different character from that of a vague object of hope to a believer as a period of glory. In Chapter 5 the apostle speaks of it, but...
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 su...
For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. Ver. 7. _Are drunk in the night_] But now, alas, drunkenness is become a noonday devil. Once Peter's argumen...
_For they that sleep, sleep in the night_, &c. Night is the time for sleep, and they that are guilty of drunkenness, gluttony, and other vices of intemperance, generally choose to hide them under the...
THEY THAT SLEEP, SLEEP IN THE NIGHT-DRUNKEN IN THE NIGHT; as the natural night is the time when men indulge in natural sleep and drunkenness, so they who live in the spiritual night of ignorance and s...
The alertness and vigilance of the Christians:...
In contrast to the new revelation Paul gives at the end of ch. 4, he now tells them in ch. 5 that "of the times and seasons" there was no need to write, for this was a matter of which they were well a...
D. The certainty of Christ's coming, 5:1-11 1 BUT OF THE TIMES AND THE SEASONS, BRETHREN, YE HAVE NO NEED THAT I WRITE UNTO YOU. 2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh a...
“FOR THEY THAT SLEEP, SLEEP IN THE NIGHT: AND THEY THAT ARE DRUNKEN ARE DRUNKEN IN THE NIGHT” “They that sleep”: The unbelievers. “Night is the sleeper's time for sleeping, the drunkard's time for d...
6-11 Most of mankind do not consider the things of another world at all, because they are asleep; or they do not consider them aright, because they sleep and dream. Our moderation as to all earthly t...
The apostle enforceth the former duties of watchfulness and sobriety from the consideration of their present state. They that sleep choose the night to sleep in, and they that would be drunk choose th...
For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that are drunken are drunken in the night....
1 Thessalonians 5:7 For G1063 sleep G2518 (G5723) sleep G2518 (G5719) night G3571 and G2532 drunk G3182 (G5746) drunk G3184 (G5719) night G3571 those who sleep - Job 4:13, Job 33:15; Luke 21:34-3
‘So then let us not sleep as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober, for those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunken, are drunken in the night, but let us, since we are of the d...
_Exhortation to Sobriety and Watchfulness, founded in the Suddenness of the Lord's Coming, and on their Character as Children of Light._ Having spoken so definitely of the Lord's coming, Paul anticip...
THEY THAT BE DRUNKEN ARE DRUNKEN IN THE NIGHT (ο μεθυσκομενο νυκτος μεθυουσιν). No need of "be" here, they that are drunken. No real difference in meaning between μεθυσκω and μεθυω, to be drunk, ex...
1 Thessalonians 5:1 I. The Apostle having disclosed much in the foregoing verses about the Lord's second coming, and the respective shares in its glory which are to fall to those of His people who ar...
1 Thessalonians 5:1. _But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night._ It...
CONTENTS: The model walk for the believer. The day of Jehovah. Exhortations to believers. CHARACTERS: Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: Let Christians live like men who are awake, living in con...
1 Thessalonians 5:1. _Of the times and seaso_n _s, ye have no need that I write to you._ Paul as a prophet might have said much concerning the dispensations of providence which should attend the churc...
IT IS AT NIGHT. People sleep at night. But also, people do things at night that would make them ashamed in the day. He means that the stupidity and lust of the world are appropriate for the darkness o...
_But of the times and seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you--Perhaps because the apostle had told them, or because the sudden coming of Christ was a universal belief._ So in modern...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 1 Thessalonians 5:1. TIMES AND SEASONS.—The one is the even, continuous flow of the river, the other is the cataract. Seasons we may represent as epochs. Our Lord in...
EXPOSITION CONTENTS.—With regard to the time of that glorious advent when believers, whether dead or living, will be gathered together to Christ, the Thessalonians had already been fully instructed....
But of the times and seasons, brethren, you have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace...
1 Corinthians 15:34; 1 Samuel 25:36; 1 Samuel 25:37; 2 Peter 2:13; Acts 2:15; Daniel 5:4; Daniel 5:5; Ephesians 5:14; Isaiah 21:4; Isaiah 21:5
Be drunken [μ ε θ υ σ κ ο μ ε ν ο ι]. Lit. who are made drunk or get drunk. See on John 2:10. In N. T. always of intoxication. In LXX, the Hebrews shekar strong drink is several times rendered by mequ...
THE LORD'S COMING 1 Thessalonians 5:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The question up for discussion is one of utmost importance. If it is true that the Lord's Coming is near, and that at any moment we may hear...
They usually sleep and are drunken in the night — These things do not love the light....