11And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. …
But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-14)We are here taught a lesson of sobriety and godliness in ourselves. Our main care must be to look to ourselves. Four things we are here taught, as a Christian’s directory for his day’s work: when to awake, how to dress ourselves, how to walk, and what provision to make. I. When to awake: Now it is high time to awake (Rom. 13:11), to awake out of the sleep of sin (for a sinful condition is a sleepi…
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