1 Thessalonians 5:7

7 qui enim dormiunt nocte dormiunt et qui ebrii sunt nocte ebrii sunt

1 Thessalonians 5:7 Meaning and Commentary

1 Thessalonians 5:7

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 such who are children of the day, and of the light:

and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night;
drunkenness is a work of darkness, and therefore men given to excessive drinking love darkness rather than light, and choose the night for their purpose. To be drunk at noon is so shameful and scandalous, that men who love the sin, and indulge themselves in it, take the night season for it; and equally shameful it is, that enlightened persons should be inebriated, either with the cares of this life, or with an over weening opinion of themselves.

1 Thessalonians 5:7 In-Context

5 omnes enim vos filii lucis estis et filii diei non sumus noctis neque tenebrarum

6 igitur non dormiamus sicut ceteri sed vigilemus et sobrii simus

7 qui enim dormiunt nocte dormiunt et qui ebrii sunt nocte ebrii sunt

8 nos autem qui diei sumus sobrii simus induti loricam fidei et caritatis et galeam spem salutis

9 quoniam non posuit nos Deus in iram sed in adquisitionem salutis per Dominum nostrum Iesum Christum