Ye are all the children of light,— Having compared our Lord's sudden and unexpected appearance to the coming of a thief in the night, he takes up the comparison again, 1 Thessalonians 5:4 and pursues it to 1 Thessalonians 5:10 calling holy and righteous men the children of the day, and of the light, and idolatrous and wicked persons, ignorant of the truth, children of the night, and of darkness. This comparison is frequently touched upon in the Holy Scriptures, as well as in the heathen poets, with the greatest justness and beauty. Wicked men are represented as skulking about in the night, like birds of prey, or like bats and moles, whose eyes cannot bear the light, Job 24:13-18. Matthew 8:12. On the other hand, good men fear not the light, as their deeds will bear examination. This was the state from which the converts among the idolatrous Gentiles had happily and most remarkably emerged. See Romans 13:12-14. Ephesians 5:7-8. Colossians 1:12-13.
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5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.