Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
The unconverted lie in spiritual death: all their notions of God and sin are mere phantoms, their senses bound fast. How can a man sleep loaded with guilt, condemned, hovering over perdition? Yet he sleeps, and his damnation does not slumber.
AI summary
Much labor has been spent hunting for this quotation in the Old Testament, and found nothing exact. The sense echoes Isaiah's summons to the church, yet the design differs sharply: here Christ calls the spiritually dead to awaken and receive His light directly.
AI summary
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. (f) The scripture, or God in the scripture. (g) He speaks of the death of sin.