Teks -- 1 Thessalonians 5:7 (NET)

5:7 For those who sleep, sleep at night and those who get drunk are drunk at night.

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Robertson: 1Th 5:7 - They that be drunken are drunken in the night

They that be drunken are drunken in the night ( hoi methuskomenoi nuktos methuousin ).

No need of "be"here, they that are drunken. No real difference in meaning between methuskō and methuō , to be drunk, except that methuskō (inceptive verb in ̇skō ) means to get drunk.

Robertson: 1Th 5:7 - Night

Night ( nuktos , genitive by night)

is the favourite time for drunken revelries.

Vincent: 1Th 5:7 - Be drunken

Be drunken ( μεθυσκόμενοι )

Lit. who are made drunk or get drunk . See on Joh 2:10. In N.T. always of intoxication. In lxx, the Hebrews shekar strong drink is several times rendered by μέθυσμα ; Jdg 13:4, Jdg 13:7; 1Sa 1:11, 1Sa 1:15.

Wesley: 1Th 5:7 - They usually sleep and are drunken in the night

These things do not love the light.

JFB: 1Th 5:7

This verse is to be taken in the literal sense. Night is the time when sleepers sleep, and drinking men are drunk. To sleep by day would imply great indolence; to be drunken by day, great shamelessness. Now, in a spiritual sense, "we Christians profess to be day people, not night people; therefore our work ought to be day work, not night work; our conduct such as will bear the eye of day, and such has no need of the veil of night" [EDMUNDS], (1Th 5:8).

Clarke: 1Th 5:7 - For they that sleep

For they that sleep - Sleepers and drunkards seek the night season; so the careless and the profligate persons indulge their evil propensities, and avoid all means of instruction; they prefer their ignorance to the word of God’ s grace, and to the light of life. There seems to be here an allusion to the opinion mentioned under 1Th 5:4 (note), to which the reader is requested to refer. It may be remarked, also, that it was accounted doubly scandalous, even among the heathen, to be drunk in the day time. They who were drunken were drunken in the night.

TSK: 1Th 5:7 - they that sleep // and they

they that sleep : Job 4:13, Job 33:15; Luk 21:34, Luk 21:35; Rom 13:13; 1Co 15:34; Eph 5:14

and they : 1Sa 25:36, 1Sa 25:37; Pro 23:29-35; Isa 21:4, Isa 21:5; Dan 5:4, Dan 5:5; Act 2:15; 2Pe 2:13

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Poole: 1Th 5:7

The apostle enforceth the former duties of watchfulness and sobriety from the consideration of their present state. They that sleep choose the night to sleep in, and they that would be drunk choose the night for it: drunkenness being so shameful a vice, especially in the apostles’ time, that men were ashamed to be seen drunk in the day-time; see Act 2:15 Eph 5:12,13 : and in ancient times they had their feasts in the night. Ye therefore that are not in the night of your former ignorance, ought neither to be found in the sleep of security nor in the sin of drunkenness, whereby may be meant also any kind of intemperance; for a man may be drunk, and not with wine, Isa 29:9 ; drunk with pleasure, with cares, with sensual love and desires, with passion, and by spiritual judgments upon the soul, Isa 29:10 .

Gill: 1Th 5:7 - For they that sleep, sleep in the night // and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night

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.