1 6. Ka/ vfitpupsv, and let us be sober) This denotes the state, avavjjpu, exvqpu, the act, 2 Tim. ii. 26 ; 1 Cor. xv. 34. — vqpu is a milder term.
7. MedvtrxofAevoi — ft&Qvovffiv, those who are drunken, are drunken)
denotes the act, fjt,s6vu9 the state or habit ; so in — xad?.{jdovfft, the Ploce2 is apparent. For first, x dovrs$ has the inchoative power, falling into sleep ; then expresses continuance, they go on in sleep. — wxrbg) in the night time, for the most part. Even constant somnolency and drunkenness render the very night worse. Such persons are averse (shrink) from the day.
8. 'EXcr/da ffwrjjp/ac, the hope of salvation) Refer to this the next verse.
9. "Edsro, hath appointed) So the LXX., Ps. Ixvi. 9, roD Oep'svou rv\v -^VXTJV /AQV stg fyjjv, who hath placed (holdeth) my soul in life ; Judg. i. 28, S&STO rbv XavavaTov s!g popov, put the Canaanite to tribute ; where indeed the Vatican reading has Icro/jjtfg, but efaro was a phraseology certainly not unusual with the transcriber. — vspiwoiqffiv tfurqpfai) Salvation of that sort is intended, by which they who are saved are taken out (excepted) from the multitude of those that perish.3
10. 'Aflro0avovro£, who hath died) That appointment for a pecu liar preservation (ffep/ffofq&v ffurqpfus), consisted in the death of Christ itself. — i/n- xadsvdupev, whether we sleep) as to the body, in natural sleep or in death. — «//,«) at the same time as the coming takes place. Or are we rather to take it, together with Him, in the same place where, and in the same manner as, He lives ? I cannot think so. The whole subject is " concerning the times " (ver. 1), and at the end of the discussion the dis course returns to those things with which it began. They had always set before themselves the coming of Christ as a thing near at hand. So also does Lubinus explain it.
1 Keti ov ftvj txQv'yafft, and they shall not escape) how anxiously soever they might desire it. — V. g.
2 The figure by which the same word is twice put, once in the simple sense, next to express an attribute of it. Append. — ED.
3 See note on Eph. i. 14, as to the meaning of TrepiTrotwis. It is said of that which remains, when all else is lost. So here of the elect saved, when all others are lost. — ED