Ephesians 5:14

Clement of Alexandria Exhortation to the Heathen

After the accusation of such a witness, and his invocation of God, what else remains for the unbelieving than judgment and condemnation? And the Lord, with ceaseless assiduity, exhorts, terrifies, urges, rouses, admonishes; He awakes from the sleep of darkness, and raises up those who have wandered in error. "Awake," He says, "thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light,"[106]

Clement of Alexandria Exhortation to the Heathen

Praise and declare to me Thy Father God; Thy utterances save; Thy hymn teaches[159]

Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book V

And concerning these, he says, the Scripture speaks: "Awake thou that sleepest, and arise, and Christ will give thee light."[53]

Hippolytus Dogmatical and Historical Fragments

And the prophet says, "Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light."[165]

Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes

Precisely in this way, then, the law of Moses served as a sort of guardian to the people, like the tamp, until the true Sun, who is our Saviour, should arise, even as the apostle also says to us: "And Christ shall give thee light."[501]