Teks -- 1 Thessalonians 5:5 (NET)

5:5 For you all are sons of the light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of the darkness.

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Robertson: 1Th 5:5 - Sons of light

Sons of light ( huioi phōtos )

, sons of day (huioi hēmeras ). Chiefly a translation Hebraism (Deissmann, Bible Studies , pp. 161ff.). Cf. words of Jesus in Luk 16:8 and Paul in Eph 5:9. He repeats the same idea in turning from "ye"to "we"and using nuktos (night) and skotous (darkness), predicate genitives.

Vincent: 1Th 5:5 - Ye are all

Ye are all

In the text γὰρ for should be inserted after πάντες all . Ye are not in darkness for ye are sons of light.

Vincent: 1Th 5:5 - Children of light

Children of light ( υἱοὶ φωτός )

More correctly, sons of light. See on Mar 3:17, and comp. Luk 16:8; Joh 12:36; Eph 5:8; Col 1:12. The Christian condition is habitually associated in N.T. with light: see Mat 5:14, Mat 5:16; Joh 3:21; Joh 8:12; Act 26:18; 1Pe 2:9; 1Jo 1:7. The contrary condition with darkness: see Joh 3:19, Joh 3:20; Eph 5:8; 1Pe 2:9; Mat 4:16; Mat 6:23, etc.

Vincent: 1Th 5:5 - Of the night - of darkness

Of the night - of darkness ( νυκτὸς - σκότους )

The genitive marks an advance of thought from ἐν σκότει in darkness, 1Th 5:4. Ἑν indicates the element in which one is. The genitive, of darkness , points to nature and origin. To belong to darkness is more than to be in darkness.

JFB: 1Th 5:5

The oldest manuscripts read, "FOR ye are all," &c. Ye have no reason for fear, or for being taken by surprise, by the coming of the day of the Lord: "For ye are all sons (so the Greek) of light and sons of day"; a Hebrew idiom, implying that as sons resemble their fathers, so you are in character light (intellectually and morally illuminated in a spiritual point of view), Luk 16:8; Joh 12:36.

JFB: 1Th 5:5 - are not of

That is, belong not to night nor darkness. The change of person from "ye" to "we" implies this: Ye are sons of light because ye are Christians; and we, Christians, are not of night nor darkness.

Clarke: 1Th 5:5 - Ye are all the children of light

Ye are all the children of light - Ye are children of God, and enjoy both his light and life. Ye are Christians - ye belong to him who has brought life and immortality to light by his Gospel. This dispensation, under which ye are, has illustrated all the preceding dispensations; in its light all is become luminous; and ye, who walked formerly in heathen ignorance, or in the darkness of Jewish prejudices, are now light in the Lord, because ye have believed in him who is the light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory and splendor of his people Israel

Clarke: 1Th 5:5 - We are not of the night, nor of darkness

We are not of the night, nor of darkness - Our actions are such as we are not afraid to expose to the fullest and clearest light. Sinners hate the light; they are enemies to knowledge; they love darkness; they will not receive instructions; and their deeds are such as cannot bear the light.

Defender: 1Th 5:5 - children of light

Even "children of the light" may become careless in this world and be sleeping when they should be watching. Hence, the exhortation to "watch and be sober" (1Th 5:6). We should constantly abide in Him that we not be "ashamed before him at his coming" (1Jo 2:28)."

TSK: 1Th 5:5

Luk 16:8; Joh 12:36; Act 26:18; Eph 5:8

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Poole: 1Th 5:5

And because the night is the time of darkness, and the day of light, he therefore hereby describes their present state:

1. Positively: Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day which is a Hebraism: Ye are partakers of a spiritual light, and this light is not the darker light of nature, or the light of prophecy, which the Jews had, compared to a lamp, 2Pe 1:19 ; but ye are children of the day, as the time of the gospel is called day, Rom 13:12 2Co 6:2 .

2. Negatively: We are not of the night, nor of darkness your state is exceedingly different from other Gentiles, and from what it once was, as the light is from darkness, and day from night: not as if there was no ignorance remaining in them, for the best men see but through a glass, darkly, 1Co 13:12 ; but the apostle compares them with their former estate when they were Gentiles, and with the Jews under the law; and with respect to their state in Christ, they were not children of the night, or, as to their state, of the night, but children of light, and of the day.

Haydock: 1Th 5:5 - You are the children of light

You are the children of light. That is, there is little danger of thieves in the day time, when it is light. Also watch and have arms to defend you, the coat of mail of faith; the helmet of hope: you are under the protection of Christ, who died for you, and for your salvation. See St. John Chrysostom, p. 293, &c. (Witham)

Gill: 1Th 5:5 - Ye are all children of light // and the children of the day // we are not of the night, nor of darkness

Ye are all children of light,.... Or enlightened persons, whose understandings were enlightened by the spirit of God, to see their lost state by nature, the exceeding sinfulness of sin, the insufficiency of their righteousness to justify them before God, the fulness, suitableness, and excellency of Christ's righteousness, the way of salvation by Christ, and that it is all of grace from first to last; to understand in some measure the Scriptures of truth, and the mysteries of the Gospel; to have knowledge of some things that are yet to be done on earth, as the bringing in of the fulness of the Gentiles, the conversion of the Jews, the destruction of antichrist, the second coming of Christ, the resurrection of the dead, the change of living saints, and the rapture of both up into the air to meet Christ, the burning of the world, and the new heavens and new earth, where Christ and his saints will dwell; as also to have some glimpse of the heavenly glory, of the unseen joys, and invisible realities of the other world: and this the apostle says of them all, in a judgment of charity, as being under a profession of the grace of God, and in a church state, and nothing appearing against them why such a character did not belong to them:

and the children of the day; of the Gospel day, in distinction from the night of Jewish darkness; and of the day of grace which was come upon their souls, in opposition to the night of ignorance and infidelity, which was past; and of the everlasting day of glory, being heirs of, and having a right unto, and a meetness for the inheritance of the saints in light:

we are not of the night, nor of darkness; that is not the children of darkness, as the Syriac and Arabic versions read; and the former changes the person, and reads, "ye are not the children of the night", &c. of the night of the legal dispensation, or of Gentile ignorance; or of a state of natural darkness, in unregeneracy and was no need to write unto them concerning the time and season of Christ's coming, and lays a foundation for the following exhortations.