 | William Paley, Edmund Paley - 1825 - 604 pągines
...view of their condition as Christians, he takes occasion to enforce upon them the duty of sobriety : " They that be drunken, are drunken in the night ; but let us who are of the day be sober." I am not concerned to discuss the arguments. The passage shows Saint Paul's sentiments of the crime... | |
 | George Townsend - 1825 - 810 pągines
...night, nor of darkness. 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as (to others ; but let us watch and be sober. 7 For they that sleep, sleep in the night ; and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night. 8 But let us who are of the day, be sober, putting on Julian Pe- the breast-plate of faith and love... | |
 | George Townsend - 1825 - 808 pągines
...night, nor of darkness. 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others ; but let us watch and be sober. 7 For they that sleep, sleep in the night ; and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night. 8 But let us who are of the day, be sober, putting on Julian Pe- the breast-plate of faith and love... | |
 | 1826 - 590 pągines
...of light, and the children of the day ; we arc not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore, let us not sleep as do others ; but let us watch and be sober....putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for an helmet the hope of salvation." To which he adds, in the words of the text — " For God hath not... | |
 | Robert Wilson (A.M.) - 1826 - 236 pągines
...the duty of watchfulness. " Therefore let us not sleep, as do others ; but let us watch and be saber. For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they...putting on the breast-plate of faith and love ; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation," ver. 6—8. He next proceeds, by the way of encouragement, to state... | |
 | Oliver Reywood - 1826 - 626 pągines
...of the bed of sloth and security, and set yourselves to the work of God in good earnest ; " Let us not sleep as do others; but let us watch and be sober; for they that sleep, sleep in the night," 1 Thess. v. 6, 7. It is very unbecoming persons professing the name of God to be secure and sinful... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pągines
...apostle likewise condemns drunkenness, as peculiarly inconsistent with the Christian profession :— " They that be drunken, are drunken in the night: but let us, who are of the day, be sober." 1 Thess. v. 7, 8. We are not concerned with the argument; the words amount to a prohibition of drunkenness,... | |
 | 1841 - 472 pągines
...introduced as a reason why the believer should obey the preceding word of encouragement and exhortation. " Let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love ; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation " (1 Thes. v. 8). While, then, the child of God feels the weight and... | |
 | 1827 - 512 pągines
...of light, and the children of the day ; we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others, but let us watch and be sober....putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for an helmet the hope of salvation; for God hath not appointed -us to wrath, but .to obtain salvation... | |
 | John Platts - 1827 - 688 pągines
...are manifest,—envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like. 1 THES. v. 6—8 : Let us not sleep as do others, but let us watch and be sober....putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. 1 PET. iv. 3, 7: The time past of our life may suffice us to have... | |
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Therefore let us not sleep, as do others ; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night. But let us who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breast-plate of faith and love... 
