 | John Evans - 1825 - 562 pages
...as in the day, not in rioting and drunkenness," 1 Thess. v. 5—8. " Ye are all the children of the light, and the children of the day : we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others ; but let us watch, and be sober. For they... | |
 | John Evans - Christian life - 1825 - 568 pages
...in the day, not in rioting and drunkenness," 1 Thess. v. 5 — 8. " Ye are all the children of the light, and the children of the day : we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others ; but let us watch, and be sober. For they... | |
 | Hugh McNeile - Sermons, English - 1825 - 472 pages
...mention made of them in the Scriptures. St. Paul, in his first Epistle to the Thessalonians, says, " Ye are all the children of light and the children of the day." How came these Greeks of Thessalonica to be children of light, amidst the darkness and ruin of the... | |
 | 1871 - 592 pages
...ye light in the Lord. Walk as children of light, and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness. Ye are all the children of light and the children of the day ; we are not of the night nor of darkness." In verses 11, 16, 17, 18, 20, 22, 24, we find that the new created earth was to be... | |
 | William Jones, William Stevens - Theology - 1826 - 526 pages
...brethren, says he, are not in darkness, " that that day should overtake you as a thief (in the " night): ye are all the children of light, and the " children of the day: we are not of the night nor of " darkness" As the night is a time of darkness, it is also a time of sleep: " Peter was sleeping."... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1826 - 590 pages
...distinction between his Thessalonian brethren, together with himself, and impenitent, unbelieving sinners : " Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day ; we arc not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore, let us not sleep as do others ; but let us watch... | |
 | Edward Reynolds, Alexander Chalmers - Anglican Communion - 1826 - 490 pages
...morningstar, and day-spring upon their consciences. " Ye are all the children of light," saith the apostle, " and the children of the day; we are not of the night, nor of darkness.""" » Rev. xxli. 16. » Luke ii. 78. p Mai. iv. 2. * Rom. xiii. 12. 1 John ii. 8.... | |
 | 1827 - 512 pages
...shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief; ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day ; we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others, but let us watch and be sober. For they... | |
 | John Platts - 1827 - 572 pages
...THES. v. 4, 5 : But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day : we are not of the night, nor ordarkness. See on 2 COR. iv. 6. * See on ROM. ix. 25, 26. y See on 2 COR. v. 6. 1,2 Having your... | |
 | John Edmund Jones - Sermons, English - 1827 - 402 pages
...scripture as ' the children of the day/ " Ye, brethren," saith St. Paul in writing to the Thessalonians, "are not in darkness ; ye are all the children of light and the children of the day."* In which passage there is a manifest comparison between a state of grace, and the state of those who... | |
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Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. 
