1 Thessalonians 5:6

Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

Ver. 6. As do others] What wonder that the Grecians live loosely? saith Chrysostom; but that Christians do so, this is worse, yea, intolerable.

But let us watch and be sober] We must not be like Agrippa's dormouse that would not awake till cast into boiling lead, or Matthiolus's asses fed with hemlock, that lie for dead, and are half hilded ere they can be aroused. (Comment. in Dioscor.) But rather we should resemble Aristotle and others, who were wont to sleep with brazen balls in their hands, which failing on vessels purposely set on their beds' sides, the noise did dissuade immoderate sleep.