1 Thessalonians 5:7

The υἱοὶ ἡμέρας must be γρηγοροῦντες and νήφοντες, for the opposite conditions belong to the σκότος and are proper to its children: οἱ γὰρ καθεύδοντες νυκτὸς καθεύδουσιν, καὶ οἱ μεθυσκόμενοι νυκτὸς μεθύουσιν, for those that sleep, sleep by night, and those who get drunk are drunken by night,—day is no time for such indulgences. To be drunk by day was a monstrous, unheard-of thing (Acts 2:15). “Μεθύσκομαι notat actum, μεθύω statum vel habitum” (Bengel); for the former—“to make oneself drunk,” sich betrinken—cf. Luke 12:45; Ephesians 5:18; for the latter, Acts 2:15; Revelation 17:6. The genitive of time is partitive, signifying a whole within which something happens or is done: νυκτός, by night; but νυκτί, at night; νύκτα, through the night, all night (Luke 21:37; Acts 26:7). The verse is an adage, adduced in its literal sense.