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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 pref...
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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...
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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 Thes
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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...
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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...
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LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT (1 Thessalonians 5:1-11)...
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_For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are
drunken in the night_ The "sons of day" must be wakeful and sober, for
the opposite conditions belong to _night_and are proper to...
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Section VI. The Coming of the Lord Jesus
Ch. 1 Thessalonians 4:13 to 1 Thessalonians 5:11
This solemn topic, as we have already seen (note on ch. 1
Thessalonians 1:10, and Intro
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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...
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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 ΜΕ...
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§ 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...
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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...
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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 come...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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)....
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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 s...
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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...
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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...
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περὶ τῶν χρόνων καὶ τῶν καιρῶν....
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_Cf._ Plutarch, _De Iside_. vi., Οἶνον δὲ οἱ μὲν ἐν
Ἥλιου πόλει θεραπεύοντες τὸν θεὸν
οὐκ εἰσφέρουσιν τοπαράπαν εἰς τὸ
ἱερόν, ὡς οὐ προσῆκον ἡμέρας πίνειν,
τοῦ κυρίου καὶ βασιλέως ἐφορῶντος....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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The alertness and vigilance of the Christians:...
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FOR THEY THAT SLEEP, SLEEP IN THE NIGHT; AND THEY THAT BE DRUNKEN ARE
DRUNKEN IN THE NIGHT....
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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...
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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...
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“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 dr...
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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...
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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...
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For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that are drunken are
drunken in the night....
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‘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...
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1 Thessalonians 5:7. THEY THAT SLEEP, SLEEP IN THE NIGHT. Every man
has a natural shame of being found asleep in the day-time, no matter
what good excuse he has for it, however exhausted and unwell he...
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_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 anticipa...
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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...
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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 are...
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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...
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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
cons...
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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...
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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...
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_They that sleep sleep in the night, and they that be drunken are
drunken in the night _
A MANIFOLD DRUNKENNESS
The drunkenness here spoken of is not that from wine only, but that
also which comes o...
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_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...
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_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...
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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. T...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 15:34; 1 Samuel 25:36; 1 Samuel 25:37; 2 Peter 2:13;...
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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...
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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...
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They usually sleep and are drunken in the night — These things do
not love the light....