So then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain awake and sober.
On what had been said, the apostle grounds seasonable exhortations to several needful duties. I. To watchfulness and sobriety, Th1 5:6. These duties are distinct, yet they mutually befriend one another. For, while we are compassed about with so many temptations to intemperance and excess, we shall not keep sober, unless we be upon our guard, and, unless we keep sober, we shall not long watch. 1.
Commenting on 1 Thessalonians 5:6-10
Therefore let us not sleep as do others.... As the rest of the Gentiles, as unconverted persons, who are in a state of darkness, and are children of the night; let us not act that part they do, or be like them; which professors of religion too much are, when they indulge themselves in carnal lusts and pleasures, and are careless and thoughtless about the...
THE DUTY OF WATCHING, AND WHY IT MUST ATTEND OUR PRAYERS. Section I. — Now, the guard which the Spirit of God here appoints, is watching, — 'watching thereunto.' Watching is either proper, or improper ; literal, or metaphorical. Watching, literally taken, is an affection of the body : that only can properly be said to watch, which is subject to sleep ; and so...
Commenting on Ephesians 6:10-20